Education & Workforce

Local child care centers charging more as operating costs rise

Baton Rouge child care centers are continuing to deal with issues like worker shortages and costlier supplies as more parents head back to offices.

Work and home have blended, but lines can be redrawn 

The boundaries between home and work have been scrambled by two years of working...

Next green energy source could be an artificial leaf, LSU researchers say

LSU researchers are exploring ways to use sunlight to create “green energy on demand,” which could help Louisiana diversify its economy.

LSU student-athletes land more than 250 NIL deals in first six months

It’s been six months since name, image and likeness rules were passed by the NCAA in July 2021, and LSU athletes took advantage almost immediately. Now, over 250 deals have been signed among LSU’s more than 500 student-athletes.

New charter school opens at Howell Place; apartment complex in the works 

Two developments, a recently opened charter school and a planned apartment complex, both totaling $125 million, are the newest tenants of Howell Place, Richard Preis’s development on Plank Road.

Want to know what your co-workers earn? It may get easier to find out

Pay transparency's days as a taboo subject are numbered. Openly sharing the salaries of employees...
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COVID surge has workers calling in sick in record numbers 

The latest surge of coronavirus cases powered by the omicron variant has caused extremely...

US jobless claims reach highest mark since October

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in three months as the fast-spreading omicron variant disrupted the job market.

LSU will serve as home for Louisiana Small Business Development Center 

LSU today announced it will serve as the new host organization for the statewide...

Baton Rouge among nation’s slowest-growing job markets 

Baton Rouge’s job market is among the slowest growing in the country, coming in seventh-worst on job site Indeed’s ranking of U.S. metros.