Baton Rouge area unemployment rate falls in August to 5.7%

    The Baton Rouge metro area’s unemployment rate shrunk to 5.7% in August, down 0.2 percentage points from a 5.9% rate in July. However, nonseasonally adjusted data from the federal Bureau of Labor…


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