GT employment improving

The Golden Triangle region and Mississippi’s unemployment rates remain well above the national average (6.3%). New figures show signs that people living in the Golden Triangle area are finding jobs. Over the past eight months, Lowndes County's unemployment rate has been lower compared to 2013. In August, it was down 1% from 2013 to 8.7%. Clay County still remains the highest in the state but the August rate was down 3% to 15.7%. Oktibbeha County improved 1.1% to a rate of 7.7%. Noxubee County improved seven-tenths of a percent to 14.5 percent last month. (Source: Columbus Dispatch 09/25/14) Golden Triangle Note: Lowndes County has borrowed $14 million this year to purchase 2,500 acres of land for future development at the new Golden Triangle Regional Global Industrial Aerospace Park. "I think you're going to see some advanced automotive and aerospace component manufacturers" locate in the park, LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins said, "and a large number of jobs” in the aerospace, helicopter and steel industries “for a long time.” (Source: Columbus Dispatch 06/28/14)