HATTIESBURG, Miss.  – The Mississippi Regional Economic Analysis Project, a new interactive Web site launched by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at The University of Southern Mississippi is up and running with economic and demographic data for all 82 Mississippi counties and the United States.

The MREAP site is hosted by the Southern Miss College of Business and data is free to the public.
Economists, regional planners and economic developers, among others, are finding the site user-friendly, but for those who want to get up to speed immediately in the creation of custom graphs and reports, BBER is hosting workshops in two locations.

The first workshop is set for April 1 at the Southern Miss Gulf Park campus in Long Beach, and the second will be April 3 at the Mississippi Library Commission Building in Jackson.

The cost for the workshops, which run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is $45, including lunch and refreshments.
For more information or to register for the workshops, visit http://www.pnreap.org/mississippi or call 601.266.5049.

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