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Companies keep closing doors, but Clarke County fights back

Tired of being knocked down again and again as one company after another closes its doors, the residents of Clarke County have taken a proactive approach to bring back thousands of jobs lost over the last few years.

Well over 100 Clarke County volunteers have joined forces to turn things around for their East Mississippi county. This spring, residents enlisted the help of the Montgomery Institute and organized themselves into committees that meet regularly to come up with one strategic plan to bring back jobs. The county has also gone after grant money and gotten it, and seen the opening of a full-time WIN Transition Center to help people find jobs.

The county swung into action in February ...

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