United Furniture Industries — the Tupelo-based furnishings manufacturer that recently laid off its entire staff via email and text message – received more than $3 million dollars in taxpayer money through business incentive grants since 2009.  The furniture company regularly got sums every few years — ranging from $200,000 to […]

“I don’t know where it is written or said we can’t be the manufacturing capital of the world again,” President Biden gives his thoughts on infrastructure and jobs. Mississippi-based United Furniture Industries laid off nearly its entire workforce before Thanksgiving.  Around 2,700 workers lost their jobs on Monday, according to […]