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Southwest Mississippi sees new residents, opportunities: labor force study in works for 10-county partnership.

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The counties of Southwest Mississippi are on the move with new residents resulting from Hurricane Katrina, innovative approaches to attracting industry and a strong regional partnership that's conducting a labor force study.

The 10-county partnership has contracted with Pathfinders of Dallas to do a labor study to survey employers and employees, according to president Bob Smira of Lawrence County.

"The survey will look at the education and training levels needed, commuting patterns, and what salary it takes for people to move from job to job," he said. "We don't think economic development stops at the county borders, so we're including the five Mississippi counties and seven Louisiana parishes that border our partnership counties. We're developing a good working relationship with them."

The Southwest Mississippi Partnership includes the counties of Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lincoln, Pike, Walthall and Wilkinson.

'Good tool for developers'

Smira says the partnership is...

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