Mississippi

United Furniture Industries fired thousands of people via text and email while they slept

United Furniture Industries fired thousands of people via text and email while they slept

Days before Thanksgiving, a Mississippi-based furniture company laid off 2,700 workers across the country — via text and email — while many of them slept. United Furniture Industries has laid off nearly all of its workforce in the state, as well as employees in North Carolina and California, and in a blow, cut employee health …

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How a Mississippi nonprofit is helping black entrepreneurs get funding

How a Mississippi nonprofit is helping black entrepreneurs get funding

How do you start a business when you have nothing to use as collateral? In most cases, the answer is simple: you can’t — a bank won’t lend you money. But a Mississippi-based nonprofit called Higher Purpose Co. is trying to change that for black business owners in the Mississippi Delta. In a state that …

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