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Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
December 3, 2021

Federal jobs report misses mark, adding only 210,000 in November. Unemployment rate declines to 4.2%.

Economists forecasted a gain of more than 500,000 jobs for the month.  On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released a jobs report for November. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 210,000 in November, and the unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point to 4.2%. The number of unemployed persons fell by 542,000 to 6.9…
Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
December 3, 2021

Hyde-Smith reports Miss. timber businesses will receive $15.7 million in pandemic assistance payments

The allocations for MS is the largest among 44 states receiving PATTH funds. Today, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin distributing more than $15.7 million to Mississippi timber harvesters and timber hauling businesses that had been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic. At $15,718,335, the allocation for Mississippi…