Baton Rouge metro area adds 7,300 jobs in August; unemployment drops to 5.5%

    Roughly 7,300 more people were employed in the Baton Rouge metro area last month than in August 2014, according to new non-seasonally jobs data released today by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics…


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