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September 21, 2011

Mississippi growth improving a little

Mississippi growth improving a little JACKSON — Mississippi’s economy is not sliding into another recession, but it still feels like one, the state economist told legislators Tuesday. With its anemic growth, the state’s economy still has not returned to the salad days of 2007 before the Great Recession that officially began in the fall of…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 21, 2011

Budget hearings underway

Budget hearings underway JACKSON, MS (WLBT) – As state agencies present their budgets for the next fiscal year to a joint legislative budget committee, state economist Darrin Webb told law makers while the threat of a recession still lingers, the state isn’t in one but has yet to return to pre recession levels. “We’re growing…