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5.29.12

 

INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF THE ECONOMIC MOBILITY OF THE STATES    


The Pew Center on the States has developed an interactive tool that shows on a state level economic mobility. The study investigates Americans' mobility prospects during their prime working years of the 10-year span between ages 35-39 and 45-49. The study measures mobility using three measures: absolute, relative upward, and relative downward. Maryland, New Jersey, and New York have the best mobility on all three measures while Louisiana, Oklahoma, and South Carolina have the worst mobility.  Mississippi has poor mobility on two of three measures and the Southeast was consistently lower. Geographic mobility does matter at an individual level. Those who moved out of their birth states had better mobility outcomes on average than those who did not. However, geographic mobility did not affect the overall state mobility results. Regions experiencing higher mobility than the national average did so only when considering people moving into the state. LEARN MORE 

KYRIAKOUDES GIVES KEYNOTE LECTURE AT GLOBAL AMERICAN SOUTH SYMPOSIUM 


Dr. Louis Kyriakoudes, associate professor of history at The University of Southern Mississippi and TLNC Stakeholder, gave the prestigious keynote Alfred Dupont Chandler, Jr. Lecture to open the 2012 Global American South Symposium April 21 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His presentation, titled "Three 'Great Migrations' That Have Transformed the Rural South, 1840-2000," explored three major population movements that shaped and transformed the rural South: the movement of African-Americans into the trans-Appalachian South, first as slaves and then as sharecroppers and agricultural laborers, in the 19th century; the migration of rural southerners to the region's cities in the 20th century, and the arrival of immigrants into the rural South at the end of the 20th century. LEARN MORE  |  WATCH VIDEO 

SOUTHERN MISS MSED STUDENT MODERATES PANEL AT THE FLORIDA GOVERNOR'S HURRICANE CONFERENCE    


D.E. "Sam" Leiva, a graduate student in the Master's of Science in Economic Development program, poses with Max Mayfield, former director of the National Hurricane Center during Hurricane Katrina, at the 26th Annual Florida Governor's Hurricane Conference held in Fort Lauderdale from May 13-18. Mayfield was credited with saving lives in New Orleans when he personally called then-Mayor Ray Nagin to say the hurricane would kill thousands. It was only the second time he's ever called an elected official to warn them. Leiva, whose research interests include post-disaster economic redevelopment approaches, led a discussion during a training session involving Florida's long-term recovery plan. Nearly 1,800 emergency managers from local, county, state and federal agencies attended the week-long conference.

UPCOMING EVENTS     


June 7 - Mississippi Biomass and Renewable Energy Quarterly Meeting at 12 p.m. | The Accelerator | Hattiesburg, MS | REGISTER NOW
September 17-20 - True South Basic Economic Development Course | Hattiesburg, MS
  
 
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