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Baton Rouge Adds 2,100 New Jobs

Reported by Logan Leger on Fri, Apr 24th, 2009 in News and tagged: , , , ,

The Associated Press reported that Louisiana added 4,300 non-farm jobs in March. Baton Rouge added 2,100, which represents 48.9% of the total job growth of Louisiana. It was also the largest single-city growth. Year-over-year, Louisiana added about 7,000 new jobs, despite losses in a few major industries. However, unemployment claims are up year-over-year and week-over-week.

Overall, I’d say this is impressive. It seems that our area is weathering the recession decently enough. Let’s just hope this continues in the near future.

You can read the full AP report here.

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  1. More Baton Rouge Job Cuts — the Baton Rougean says:
    May 20, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    [...] strange seeing these new jobs losses amid job growth in the past few months. Here’s to hoping that these are isolated events and not the beginnings of a trend. ← [...]

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