BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending August 24, 2019 dropped to 1,972 from the previous week’s total of 1,994. For a comparison, during the week ending August 25…

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending August 17, 2019 dropped to 1,994 from the previous week’s total of 2,081. For a comparison, during the week ending August 18…

BATON ROUGE – Based on preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS), the number of not seasonally adjusted unemployed individuals decreased by 11,081 from 121,375 in July 2018…

BATON ROUGE – Preliminary data released today by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) shows that Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased 0.7 percentage points from 5.0 percent …

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending August 10, 2019 dropped to 2,081 from the previous week’s total of 2,126. For a comparison, during the week ending August 11…

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending August 3, 2019 rose to 2,126 from the previous week’s total of 2,022. For a comparison, during the week ending August 4, 201…

BATON ROUGE – The hard work of Louisiana’s Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG-LA) program is receiving national recognition as it earned the highly coveted 5 of 5 Performance Award. JAG-LA, now unde…

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending July 27, 2019 dropped to 2,022 from the previous week’s total of 2,349. For a comparison, during the week ending July 28, 20…