The head of the Center for Economic and Business Research at Southeast Missouri State University forecasts the breaching of the levee between Charleston and New Madrid will cost 522 people their jobs in Mississippi County. Doctor Bruce Domizlicky tells the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian he calculates the job losses on the basis of lost agriculture production in the county. He forecasts Mississippi County will lose about nine percent of the income it derives from labor and more than 14 percent of its sales tax revenue because of the economic impact of the farmland flooding caused by the levee breaches.
