Listening Tour (News Coverage by Lauderdale County Enterprise)
February 10, 2010
Sen. Roy Herron, Congressional candidate for the 8th District, launched a Jobs Listening Tour Monday with visits to Lauderdale and Haywood counties, two West Tennessee counties struggling with unemployment above 18 percent. Despite the snow, Herron held listening meetings to discuss job creation at 8 a.m. at the UT-Mart Ripley Center in Ripley.
Herron met with community leaders, business owners and students to hear their ideas on ways to save existing jobs and create new jobs for rural communities. He also met with several people looking for jobs in both places.
"Families and business owners all across the 8th District are hurting," Herron said. "It's time Washington focused on jobs instead of bailout out Wall Street. In Congress, my top priorities will be jobs, jobs and jobs."
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. At 18.5 percent, Haywood County ranks fourth among Tennessee counties in terms of joblessness.
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