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Business  |  Frank Corder  • 
May 7, 2021

Packed Mississippi college baseball stadiums do not appear to impact stats on COVID spread

Since lifting capacity restrictions on outdoor events, Mississippi’s COVID numbers have gone down and stayed down. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves lifted the state’s COVID-19 mask orders for businesses and public venues on March 2, 2021. He further allowed stadiums and arenas to operate at 50% capacity at that time. K-12 schools were the only places…
Business  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
May 7, 2021

Job numbers miss the mark with only 266,000 added in April

According to Wall Street expectations, the U.S. hiring markets “sharply” missed the mark with employment additions in April. While unemployment rates are still well below the peak of April 2020 at 14.7%, there was an unexpected increase to 6.1% in recent days. Expectations by the Department of Labor had assessed there to be an unemployment…