Western Alabama & Eastern Mississippi |
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19 counties in Mississippi: Clay, Oktibbeha, Winston, Leake, Scott, Smith, Covington, Lowndes, Noxubee, Neshoba, Newton, Jasper, Jones, Perry, Greene, Wayne, Clarke, Lauderdale, Kemper 17 counties in Alabama: Lamar, Fayette, Walker, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Greene, Sumter, Hale, Perry, Dallas, Marengo, Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox, Monroe, Lowndes, Conecuh Target industries: Health Care, Advanced Manufacturing, Biotechnology |
The Western Alabama and Eastern Mississippi (WAEM) WIRED zone focuses on building and leveraging partnerships with regional stakeholders to create a world-renowned regional identity built around its enterprise-centric workforce. WAEM's vision is to transform a mostly rural population into an enterprising region known for entrepreneurship, innovative workforce systems and wealth creation. To achieve this transformation WAEM seeks to meet four overarching goals:
This approach to economic transformation provides an innovative way to access and deliver programs and services and support entrepreneurship through all community systems. |
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