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Business events scheduled for the coming week
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fri,01/26/24-9:31AM , 403 Reads
Business events and economic reports scheduled for the coming week.

All times are Eastern.

TUESDAY, Jan. 30

WASHINGTON — Labor Department releases job openings and labor turnover survey for December, 10 a.m.; The Conference Board releases the Consumer Confidence Index for January, 10 a.m.
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- Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, center, receives applause from House Speaker Jason White, R-West, left, and Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, right, as well as a bipartisan group of legislators, for pursing a package of state incentives to support a plan by Amazon Web Services to build two data centers in the central part of the state, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, during the celebratory announcement at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Mississippi legislators approve incentives for 2 large data centers by Amazon Web Services
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Thu,01/25/24-12:30PM , 636 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers met in special session Thursday and quickly approved job training money and other state incentives to support a plan by Amazon Web Services to spend $10 billion to build two data centers in the central part of the state.
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Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tue,01/23/24-7:06PM , 170 Reads
Greenwood Commonwealth. January 23, 2024.

Editorial: Industry’s I-55 Dividing Line

Democratic lawmakers are grumbling that Mississippi’s biggest economic development victories, such as the electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant announced last week, always wind up in certain parts of the state.
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- Youths play soccer as they wait for a street soccer training program run by the Street Child United Brazil non-governmental organization, at the Complexo da Penha favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 29, 2023. After decades of delay and pressure, Brazil announced on Jan. 23, 204 that it will henceforth use “favelas and urban communities” to categorize thousands of poor, urban neighborhoods, instead of the previous term “subnormal agglomerates” that was widely viewed as stigmatizing. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
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16 million people live in neighborhoods Brazil calls 'subnormal.' It's finally changing the name
By DAVID BILLER AND DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press
Tue,01/23/24-1:05PM , 244 Reads
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After decades of delay and pressure, Brazil announced Tuesday that it will henceforth use “favelas and urban communities” to categorize thousands of poor, urban neighborhoods, instead of the previous term “subnormal agglomerates” that was widely viewed as stigmatizing.
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