House majority leader and Congressman Steve Scalise will introduce the Lower Energy Costs Act next week. Scalise says the average family is paying over 40 percent more for gas and the bill would have to be passed by the President.
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The bill will be considered on the House Floor in the last week of March.
According to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is at 3.5% percentage points and remains the lowest in history. Mark Jones with the Louisiana Workforce Commission says the employment rate has declined for 23 consecutive months over the year.
LWC continues to assist employers in filling job positions across the state.
A recent study by Tulane University shows a rise in alcohol and marijuana use among college students. Data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health of 56 thousand full-time college students ages 18 to 25 from 2006 to 2019 was used. Assistant professor of social work Audrey Hai (pronounced high) says the sharp increase between 2018 to 2019 for Black students is likely attributed to a number of factors including widespread attention to racism and police brutality.
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The overall increase for simultaneous use among all races and ethnicities of college students from the same time period increased from 8.13 % to 8.44%.
Crawfish season is here and the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana took a snapshot report of Louisiana’s seafood industry. PAR’s President, Steven Procopio says one out of every 70 jobs is related to the seafood industry and the state produces about 130 million pounds of crawfish annually.
The state harvest of shrimp – accounts for 33% caught in the country.