Cochran pushes water projects as job-creators
by Wally Northway Published: March 14,2010
Tags: Cochran, Congress, employment, federal government, jobs, unemployment, water projects
WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is pressing federal officials to accelerate federal water projects in Mississippi as one way to create greater economic activity in a state with a 12 percent unemployment rate. Cochran, vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, addressed the new Mississippi unemployment rate during a March 12 hearing to review the [...] [...]
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