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Workforce training funding remains stable, but demand grows. (Focus Education & Professional Development).

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-APR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1111 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Workforce training funding remains stable, but demand grows. (Focus Education & Professional Development).(state funding for workforce training in Mississippi intact)

Article Excerpt
When news has been bad for a long time, solace can be taken from just staying even. Intense lobbying has preserved level state funding for workforce training in Mississippi at present, and that is considered a victory in light of the state's continuing budget difficulties.

Jimmy Heidel, executive director of the Vicksburg-Warren County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Foundation, said thus far the state has been able to provide adequate funding to provide workforce training for existing and new industries.

"We had very few problems," said Heidel, former co-chair of the state Workforce Development Council. "As far as what is happening with my new companies, Nissan suppliers Calsonic and Yorozu, the state community college board has set aside enough to handle the training to get them opened. Both are opening in May. It seems like they are in pretty good shape. I 'haven't heard of anyone being told that there wasn't any money, available for them at this time. It appears we are going...

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