Along with state offices requiring face masks indoors, hospitals are beginning to reinstate mask policies. Brooke Thorington has more
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Louisiana is continuing an unfortunate trend of losing population to other states according to Census Bureau data. Demographer Greg Rigamer says economic factors primarily played a role in the Bayou State ranking fifth in out-migration comparing 2020 to 2021 figures. Rigamer says people are leaving the state by and large in search of bettering their future.
He says that some have also left because of the continuing hit by catastrophic hurricanes.
There’s improvement to report in Louisiana’s job market. So says Ava Cates, Secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, who notes some of the improvement that’s taken place since Hurricane Ida struck, and despite COVID-19.
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Cates says the November jobless report shows a slight decline from October, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate now at five-point-one percent.
As you head out to do your last-minute shopping for Christmas dinner, Mike Strain, Louisiana’s AG Secretary, says you really shouldn’t have much trouble finding what you need, including the right size turkey.
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The only downside to all this is inflation has pushed up the price of most everything you’ll need for your meal.