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By Job Gal | October 24, 2008
Mississippi
Mississippi is a state located in the deep south of the United States. Jackson serves as the state capital and is the largest city. The state is made up of mostly forestland outside of the Mississippi Delta area. The state was named after the Mississippi River, which comes from the Ojibwe language, meaning “great river.”
Hernando de Soto led the first major European expedition into Mississippi in 1540. The state was deeded to the British under the Treaty of Paris in 1763, and became part of America following the American Revolution. Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state into the Union in 1817. During the mid-1800s the state was known for its cotton production and slavery. Mississippi was the second state to secede from the Union as one of the Confederate States of America in 1861, and later passed Jim Crow laws. The state also played a large role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Today Mississippi is known for having a lively music scene and producing many authors, playwrights and historians. The state’s catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish in the country.
Mississippi’s Job Market
In 2006 Mississippi had a total state product of $84 billion. In 1990 the state legalized gambling along the Mississippi River and Golf Coast, and in 2005 casinos were allowed in Hancock and Harrison Counties. In 2007, the United States Census Bureau reported that Mississippi was the poorest state in the country.
The state’s fastest-growing industries include: natural resources and mining, other services, trade, transportation and utilities and professional and business services.
Work Trends
Mississippi unemployment rate: 7.8 percent
National unemployment rate: 6.1 percent
Mean travel time to work: 24.6 minutes
Mississippi’s Largest Employers
Ameristar Casino
4116 Washington Street
Vicksburg, MS 39180
Baptist Memorial Hospitals Mississippi
2301 South Lamar
Oxford, MS 38655
Catfish One Inc.
312 Front Street
Laurel, MS 39440
First State Bank
708 Azalea Drive
P.O. Box 506
Waynesboro, MS 39367
The Hattiesburg American
825 N. Main Street
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
Mississippi Blood Services
1995 Lakeland Drive
Jackson, MS 39216
Mississippi Department of Transportation
401 North West Street
Jackson, MS 39201
Rankin Medical Center
Popular Local Job Search Sites
Cheezhead
JobCentral
Craigslist
State of Mississippi
MississippiJobs
CareerBuilder
JobOpenings
Mississippi Department of Employment Security
Surrounding Area Job Search
Hattiesburg, MS
Biloxi, MS
Jackson, MS
Gulfport, MS
Long Beach, MS
Memphis, TN
Mobile, AL
Birmingham, AL
New Orleans, LA
Baton Rouge, LA
Continuing Education
Mississippi State University
University of Southern Mississippi
University of Mississippi
Jackson State University
Delta State University
Discovering Mississippi
Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
Rainwater Observatory and Planetarium
World Catfish Festival
Delta Blues & Heritage Festival
Mississippi Statistics
Population
Total population: 2,910,540
Persons under five-years old: 7.2 percent
Persons under 18-years old: 26.1 percent
Persons 65-years and older: 12.4 percent
Female: 51.6 percent
White: 60.9 percent
Black: 37.1 percent
American Indian and Alaska Native: .5 percent
Asian: .8 percent
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander: less than 1 percent
Multi-racial: .7 percent
Hispanic or Latino: 1.8 percent
Non-Hispanic white: 59.3 percent
Education
High school graduates: 72.9 percent
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 16.9 percent
Housing
Housing units: 1,241,489
Homeownership rate: 72.3 percent
Housing units in multi-unit structures: 13.3 percent
Median value of owner-occupied housing units: $71,400
Households: 1,046,434
Persons per household: 2.63
Income
Median household income: $34,278
Per capita income: $15,853
Persons below poverty: 19.3 percent
Transportation
Airports: Gulfport-Biloxi Regional, Jackson International
Railroads: Amtrak (Crescent, City of New Orleans)
Public mass transit: Mississippi Department of Transportation
Weather(Jackson)
Average annual precipitation: 55.4 inches
Average low temp. in January: 35 degrees
Average high temp. in July: 91 degrees
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