Baton Rouge and Lafayette are two of the cities that had the lowest numbers of small business bankruptcies in the first quarter. According to Equifax, the national credit reporting agency, the two cities were among the 15 lowest for small business bankruptcies. There were 12 business bankruptcy filings or less in the first quarter in both Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Other cities that ranked low for bankruptcy filings among small businesses are Hagerstown, Md.; Gainesville, Fla.; and Pensacola, Fla.; the entire state of Alaska also holds a low ranking on this Equifax list. On the list’s high end, Los Angeles led the nation, with 1,035 bankruptcy filings in the first three months of the year.
Baton Rouge, Lafayette rank low for business bankruptcies
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