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The Delta Regional Authority is sweetening the pot for cross-state applications for federal grants to strengthen training partnerships between community colleges and employers. 

Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Seth Harris said Friday that $474.5 million is available nationwide under the third round of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants program. 

New data shows small businesses have led the Mississippi Delta region in job creation. The Delta Regional Authority released private-sector data Monday showing 90 percent of all new jobs in the area over the last 20 years have come from businesses with nine or fewer employees.

The Delta Regional Authority has granted the Murray West Business Park a little over 200-thousand dollars for an improvement project. Murray-Calloway Economic Development Council Director Mark Manning says the money goes to increasing highway accessibility to a section of the park.