Economic Development

Louisiana’s workers have been leaving their jobs at unprecedented rates for several months now, but April saw fewer call it quits than March’s near-record high number, USA Today Network reports. 

The warnings have been sounded for more than a year: A recession is going to hit the U.S.. If not this quarter, then by next quarter. Or the quarter after that. Or maybe next year.

MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston sees more patients from Louisiana than from any other state besides Texas, says Dr. Welela Tereffe, MD Anderson’s chief medical executive.

Allowing the state of Louisiana to regulate the injection of carbon dioxide underground would...

Baton Rouge employment by Deanna B. Narveson  From April to May,...

Tulsa, Oklahoma, has a larger population than Baton Rouge, but the two midsize cities in conservative states known for the oil and gas industry have a lot in common, including similar concerns about attracting and retaining talent. 

Yet another bombshell exploded in the Capital Region’s health care market today as MD Anderson, perhaps the biggest name in American cancer care, announced a partnership with Ochsner that starts with Baton Rouge. 

High interest rates are usually bad news for homebuilders. But right now, they are actually making new homes easy to sell by compounding a shortage of available real estate, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Ochsner Health and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will partner to create the Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center in south Louisiana, the companies announced today. 

An Australian mining company filed advance notices with the state last week for an electric vehicle battery materials production facility in Ascension Parish.