Education & Workforce

Until Louisiana gets serious about education and fighting poverty it will remain ranked as one of this country's worse states.

Homebuyers: The average long-term mortgage rate in the U.S. ticked back down this week...

The unemployment rate for the Baton Rouge metropolitan area fell to 4.2% in September compared to 5% in August, according to preliminary estimates the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 

Given recent events and the ongoing Title IX scandal at LSU, one has to wonder why an AgCenter professor is still employed by the university?

LSU has issued a request for information from large health care organizations interested in pursuing a long-term partnership with the university that would be centered on LSU sports medicine and LSU athletics sponsorship opportunities, but also include other areas of health and wellness across the system.

Startups and Fortune 500 firms are rethinking the structure of paid time off, and extending company-wide vacations, as part of efforts to reduce burnout and stem the flow of resignations. 

The National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations, or CAE-CO, recently selected LSU as the sole university allowed to apply for CAE-CO designation this year, LSU announced Monday.

Digitalization and AI technologies are more important than ever in the industrial space, but panelists at Reuters Events’ recent 2021 Downstream USA Conference in Houston say progress is being hindered by an inadequate digital infrastructure.

The office is just a distant memory for some, a place where work was conducted in 2019 before the workforce headed home due to the pandemic. 

One of the major side effects of COVID-19, long COVID, can leave a person sick long after they recover from the virus itself.