Friday, March 6, 2020

How Does Mississippi Compare to U.S. Average?




Over the last decade, Mississippi net job growth has only averaged .77% while the national average is 1.72%.

If MS were gaining jobs at the national rate, an additional 11,000 jobs would be added each year.

If MS is to increase its job growth rate and close the gap with the national average, it will likely require years of persistence, but it must start now. Faster job growth and higher incomes will not occur without pushing more people into the right training/education programs.

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19 comments:

Unknown said...

Those companies that have the ability to create jobs know what type of workforce they have to deal with in Mississippi. Yes, we have Datsun and Continental, but I am certain they did their due diligence, were given magnanimous incentives and chose to deal with the issue anyway. Smaller companies are not given those incentives and choose to go elsewhere.

Anonymous said...

So. Much. Winning.

I am tired.

Anonymous said...

AKA: The Phil Bryant Era

Anonymous said...

Bottom line is people in the state of Mississippi expect car plants to leave Michigan and Ohio. They don't because they understand the workforce is trained in the north Midwestern states rather than Mississippi. That means more to them than anything else. Loads of new car plants in Michigan and Ohio the past 30 months. Kind of a bit shocking.

Anonymous said...

Attn 1:15. Where is the Datsun plant?

Anonymous said...

Maybe someone should turn a spotlight onto the MS Development Authority. I work for a company and had one child from MDA who looked like she was 20 and never worked a real job before come to my company and proceed to spout off about the number of rankings the state had received last year and how many airports we have in the state. I asked her how she can help me find trained workers and she had a deer in the headlights look and said let me get back to you and never did.

Anonymous said...

Mississippi needs to get serious about job growth. Now is a good time since President Trump is bringing jobs back to the US. I hope Mississippi does not miss out on this great opportunity.

Anonymous said...

That's actually a higher statistic than I expected.

Our elected "Poverty Barons" are scared of real educational programs for their constituency.

I see no change in my lifetime.
(And yeah, that's probably only twenty years at the most).

Anonymous said...

You get what you vote for...

Anonymous said...

how is it I've never met an illegal alien how didn't have a job?

Anonymous said...

2:43 nailed it. I attended one MDA event. I got more out of visiting my third grader's class. Its just government handing out jobs to people who think they just need to go around handing out jobs. That will fix everything. But they have no jobs to give out beyond the five or so trainee jobs. Its just hype and propaganda from people that Dairy Queen would not hire.

And don't get me started on Innovate Mississippi.

Anonymous said...

For the most part this is not an agricultural economy. There is only so much need for farm labor and those needs are satisfied largely by illegal aliens who work for less than a welfare check. So who needs Mississippi? No matter how much progress you may dream Mississippi has made it still occupies the same spot in the economic scheme of things relative to other states who have made more progress. Same Ole Mississippi. Home of cotton pickers and their overseers. Problem is, who needs cotton pickers and their overseers?

Bernie Could Not Unionize Nissan said...

1:15; There's nothing scientific about a company reading the workforce long before deciding to locate in a community. Don't make out like it's some sort of mystery tour with a result companies 'have to deal with'. It's either a match or it's not. Period.

Plenty of unionized northern-states have lost industry to the South over the past fifty years. And there's nothing difficult or unusual about training 'auto workers'. It's training them to have a union-mentality that's ruined the north.

Anonymous said...

NAFTA was the great sucking sound of those few good manufacturing jobs in Mississippi.

Ross Perry said...

Name them 8:41. And run a numerical tab while you're at it.

Anonymous said...

50+ years ago the NLRB explained to me that the "movers and shakers" in Mississippi were determined to exclude high paying industrial jobs from the state in order to protect their profits in the small town enterprises that they owned. Cotton gins, saw mills, pulp wood operations, etc., were paying below minimum wage, usually as day labor with no income tax or FICA taken out. Those "movers and shakers" ruled the state county by county and kept it beat down and a great many people in the state today have known nothing else and therefore think it's just the way it ought to be. Boss Hogg still rules in many areas.

Anonymous said...

8:00 am - fully aware that there is not magic formula. My point was that smaller companies that use unskilled labor will not move south because of the poor quality of the work force. Large companies are offered enough of an incentive so that that can afford to have a large, regular turnover rate.

Anonymous said...

At least we are keepin' them Hollywood liberulz out!

Anonymous said...

3:21 - You have no basis for the first half of your opinion. 'Small Companies' don't move around. They're typically formed locally by entrepreneurs. Turn your cap around and quit guessing.

But, the second half of your opinion is also bogus. Nothing compensates for turnover. It's never planned and no amount of incentive balances it on the company books. If you think that BS is true, list those incentives you believe balance against the cost of employee turnover.

In short, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.



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