The Baton Rouge Area Chamber this morning unveiled an overwhelmingly positive economic forecast for the Capital Region over the next two years, saying the nine-parish area is expected to add about 9,000 jobs in 2015 and another 8,400 the year following. The forecasted growth would represent employment expansions of 2.3% in 2015 and 2.1% in 2016.
“In years past, some slides have shown negatives,” said BRAC President and CEO Adam Knapp at a breakfast event held in conjunction with Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week. “Nearly every indicator has positive growth, and has had historically positive growth.” Daily Report has the full story.
