Mississippi in the Know: Legislative Breakfast

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Series of breakfast events featuring insightful conversations with lawmakers, community leaders, and reporters

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Please join Mississippi Today in-person or on livestream for the third and final event of the Mississippi in the Know series featuring a conversation on Medicaid expansion with Corey Miller, State Economist for Mississippi and Director of the University Research Center.Mississippi Today Editor-at-Large Marshall Ramsey will also illustrate the event live. Mississippi in the Know: Legislative Breakfast is a free series of breakfast conversations where members of the community can directly interact with lawmakers, community leaders, and reporters, while engaging in meaningful conversation.The event will also be livestreamed for those that wish to not attend in-person. Prior to the event, a livestream link will be emailed to all registrants and will be on Mississippi Today&#x27;s Facebook page. More on our speaker:Corey Miller has more than twenty years of experience as an economic researcher and his research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed economics journals. His areas of expertise include the areas of regional economics and agricultural policy.As State Economist, Miller serves as the chief economist for Mississippi with responsibilities that include economic forecasting, socio-economic policy analysis, and monitoring collections of state general fund revenue. He serves as chair of the Revenue Estimating Group, working closely with the Legislative Budget Office and other state agencies.Miller also constructs and maintains the state’s Leading Economic Index, which is used to forecast economic trends and assess the Mississippi economy. He continues to serve as editor of Mississippi’s Business, a monthly publication that tracks the performance of the state and national economies, as well as the Mississippi Economic Outlook, a quarterly publication that summarizes the latest forecasts for the state and national economies.He is a native Mississippian and earned a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness and a master’s degree in agricultural economics, both from Mississippi State University. He also completed additional Ph.D. courses in economics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.Immediately prior to his selection as State Economist, Miller served as an economic analyst for URC for nearly seven years. Prior to his tenure at IHL, Miller served as a research associate and an instructor for twelve years in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Mississippi State University.Please attend virtually if you have been exposed to a COVID-19 positive person prior to event or are experiencing symptoms related to COVID-19.An important part of Mississippi Today’s mission is to promote public discourse and civic engagement. We believe that an informed Mississippi is a better Mississippi. Since being founded in 2016 as the state&#x27;s first nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom, we center readers in everything we do, informing–and engaging–Mississippians through reporting, podcasts, events and online communities.

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