Furniture Makers Seek Workers

A few months ago, Nicole Harmon was cooking fast food at a Texaco gasstation. Now she's learning to sew couch cushions at the Max Home furniture factory.

After thousands of layoffs in northeastern Mississippi's furniture industry, some of the remaining companies are hiring. And the state is subsidizing that hiring with tax credits and training money tha tmay run into the millions of dollars.

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