Lauderdale County - Jobs Listening Tour

February, 08 2010 - 8:00 a.m.

Roy Herron launches his Jobs Listening Tour on Monday, February 8th with stops in Lauderdale and Haywood counties, the district's hardest hit counties.

Herron will be in Lauderdale County at 8:00 a.m. to meet with small business owners and local leaders and hear their ideas about what he could do in Congress to help grow and save jobs.

The meeting will be at the UT Martin Ripley Center, 315 South Washington in Ripley, TN.

Lauderdale County has the highest unemployment rate in the state at 18.9 percent, according to December 2009 estimates released by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.