BATON ROUGE (AP) -- Louisiana's annual employment growth slowed in August as the national economy continued to stagger, but the state still showed a boost of 18,200 non-farm jobs from a year ago.
That's according to the state labor department.
On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the state added 6,500 non-farm jobs from July. When seasonal factors are calculated, the labor department said the tally reached 9,400 — the largest month-to-month increase in the United States.
Boosts were recorded in both the service-providing sector and the goods-producing sector, which includes construction, manufacturing and the petroleum industry.
On a seasonal basis, Louisiana's unemployment rate in August was 5%. The national rate was 6.1%.
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Posted by cass4life on October 10, 2008 at 11:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
i have news for you its been that way around here for along time because here we are sick with good ole boy syndrome its not what you know its who you know we have not not caught up with the rest of the nation on really anything this is one of the places where even if you have a job here with the wages earn you will still need foodstamps
and legally be able to quailfy!
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