Louisiana’s unemployment rate decreased to 4.3 percent in June, down .7 percent from the same time last year. Louisiana’s unemployment rate is it’s lowest since January 2008. Louisiana Workforce Commission Chief Economist Ali Bustamante says the state gained 300 jobs from May to June, which is better than most places in the US during the same period.
Cut 4 (10) “…direction.”
Healthcare and social assistance, which added 1,200 jobs from the previous month, and 9,400 jobs over the year.

The governor’s office says the state has now saved over 12-million dollars from the 2017 criminal justice reform package approved by the state legislature. Louisiana Corrections Secretary James LeBlanc says the savings are being reinvested into programs to reduce recidivism…
cut 15 (07) “….these reform efforts”

Southwest Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins visited McAllen, Texas, late last week where US Customs and Border Protection agents process immigrants coming across the border from Mexico. Higgins says if compassionate law enforcement is the goal in America, no one is doing it better than those at the southern border.
Cut 10 (11) “…broken a law.”
Higgins is the Republican leader of the Homeland Security subcommittee.

Louisiana’s riverboat casinos report a 10-percent decline in revenue for the fiscal year that ended June 30th. Seven casinos saw 10 percent or more declines in revenue year to year, but the Belle of Baton Rouge posted the most shocking decline, at 43 percent. Louisiana Gaming Control Board Chairman Ronnie Jones says the owner is trying to get out…
Cut 9 (11) “…yet”