40 years ago it was. 35 was trending down. Look who was elected then when it started to turn.
Lumumba pleads Guilty
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40 years ago is 1986.
Tunica County apparently had a 20% unemployment rate that year...see below.
The info below is pasted from Google because citing sources on my own for this sort of thing is unnecessary.
It's equal to having to prove the world is a globe.
No, the Mississippi Delta was not thriving in the 1980s. The decade was defined by severe economic decline, massive job losses in agriculture and manufacturing, and soaring poverty rates. [1, 2, 3]
The region suffered from a perfect storm of economic challenges during this period: []
- Agricultural Consolidation: Innovations in farming and increased mechanization drastically reduced the need for manual farm labor. Large tracts of land were consolidated into fewer hands, leaving rural residents without their traditional livelihood. [1, 2, 3]
- Manufacturing Collapse: Competition from low-wage foreign markets caused regional manufacturing jobs to fall by half during the 1980s. [1]
- Extreme Poverty: Without jobs, the region's economy bottomed out. In 1986, Tunica County—one of the poorest in the Delta—faced an unemployment rate of nearly 20%. [1, 2]
