Mississippi workforce development boards and American Job Centers

Mississippi at a glance

• 3.2%

  unemployment, Aug 2026

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics, counties summed

• 3

  WARN layoff notices, last 12 months

  naming 926 workers

• 29

  American Job Centers

• 17

  colleges in the IPEDS directory

  public and private nonprofit

See every Mississippi layoff notice

Workforce boards

• Delta Workforce Development Area

  Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Panola, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tunica, Washington

• Mississippi Partnership Workforce Investment Area

  Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, De Soto, Grenada, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Winston, Yalobusha

• Southcentral Mississippi Works Workforce Development Board

  Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Simpson, Walthall, Warren, Wilkinson, Yazoo

• Twin Districts Workforce Development Area

  Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lamar, Lauderdale, Leake, Marion, Neshoba, Newton, Pearl River, Perry, Scott, Smith, Stone, Wayne

American Job Centers