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News  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
December 13, 2021

State Auditor, MDES work to recover unemployment overpayments

“We will continue to point out where your [money] has been lost and demand better results,” White said. In June, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White’s office released their annual audit and discovered $117 million in improper unemployment payments made by Mississippi’s Department of Employment Security (MDES) between the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and June…
News  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
December 13, 2021

Wicker, Padilla introduce bipartisan bill to help revitalize small businesses

In 2017, Mississippi’s small businesses employed 437,200 people, or 46.5% of the private workforce U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) introduced the Revitalizing Small and Local Businesses Act, which would create a new competitive grant program through the Economic Development Administration (EDA) for nonprofits, business districts, and Main Street organizations that provide…