Workforce Training Tiff Could Mean Special Session

By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON – Legislation designed to divert $50 million over a two-year period from a trust fund designed to pay unemployment benefits to a workforce training program has gotten caught up with failed tax cut efforts and has created the specter of a special session. House and Senate negotiators could not agree on a final version of the Mississippi Works Fund on Monday night, resulting in the issue dying for the 2015 session unless extraordinary parliamentary procedures are used. Of the bill, Nicole Webb, a spokeswoman for Gov.