Economic Development

The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry will consider today an Industrial Tax Exemption Program application for a $121 million “green” ammonia plant in Donaldsonville. 

Almost half of women in the workforce say the pandemic has negatively impacted their career path and nearly 20% of women say they’ve been pushed out of the labor force altogether, according to a MetLife survey of 2,000 U.S. workers conducted last month. 

Louisiana will receive $595 million in federal disaster block grant aid to help with housing restoration and other recovery needs from last year's back-to-back blows of Hurricanes Laura and Delta, the state's two U.S. senators announced today.

When it comes to entrepreneurship, Louisiana ranks 34th, according to a report released today by Heartland Forward.

Georgia-based Mountain Express Oil Co. acquired a majority stake in New Orleans-based Brothers Food Mart and purchased a majority of the Brothers convenience stores, five of which are in the Baton Rouge area, in a deal that closed Friday.

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration has been making the rounds with Metro Council members and trying to answer their questions in advance of Wednesday’s council meeting, at which the mayor will present her spending plan for some $73 million in federal money.

If you’re looking to buy your Thanksgiving turkey or favorite holiday side this season, you might want to act fast.

LSU’s fall 2020 freshman class was 9% larger than the previous year’s, while the number of new enrollees at Baton Rouge Community College and Gonzales-based River Parishes Community College fell 23% and 36%, respectively, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Until recently, Asian markets have depended primarily upon West Coast ports to get their goods ashore, which then make the long journey by rail to the U.S. heartland.

Preliminary Louisiana employment data for September shows a loss of nearly 30,000 seasonally adjusted non-farm jobs from August, and though this is partly due to the impacts of Hurricane Ida, the storm doesn't account for the overall shift in employment, The News Star reports.