Once again, Louisiana posts record low unemployment numbers. Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Cates says this is three months in a row of benchmark low jobless claims and/or applications…:
Cut 13 (10) “…and Louisiana citizens.”
August figures show a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.5-percent and the state added 68-thousand jobs over the last year.
According to WalletHub Louisiana ranks 10th in the nation with the highest rate of job resignations. But with record low unemployment in the Bayou State where are those individuals working? UNO business professor Mark Rosa says the service industry, like wait staff, continues to have shortages, but with more options to work remotely that include benefits are winning out.
AccuWeather revises their forecast for the hurricane season to 12 named storms as we reach the peak of the season with only six named storms so far. In the spring they predicted up to 21 named storms. State Climatologist Barry Keim says it’s still too soon to say the Bayou State is out of the woods just yet.
Cut 12 (10) “…will tell obviously.”
The world is saying its final goodbyes to Queen Elizabeth II as she’s being laid to rest today in London. Nearly two decades ago Queen Elizabeth issued a formal apology for the illegal deportation of thousands of French Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755. It was Louisiana attorney Warren Perrin who demanded the apology.
That apology came in 2003.