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News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 7, 2021

Wicker Leads Effort to Revitalize Nation’s Shipyards

Navy Infrastructure Needs a Boost from Congress America is home to some of the finest shipbuilders in the world. This industry is becoming increasingly vital to our national security as we seek to build a larger Navy capable of confronting China. Unfortunately, our shipyards are aging and are too small to expand our fleet at…
News  |  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…