Education & Workforce

Major Burns was a football star at Madison Prep Academy in Baton Rouge and...

Some 8% of young children in Louisiana are in families in which someone quit, changed or refused a job because child care is hard to find and even harder to afford, according to a June report released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  

As business leaders work to get more employees back in the office, some are...

The nation's employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August in a sign of a still-resilient labor market despite the high interest rates the Federal Reserve has imposed.

Black Americans make up about 12.6% of the workforce. But they comprise more than one-third of certain postal, transit, health care and security jobs, Pew Research Center reports in a Labor Day study.

As many fields trend toward remote work, young workers find more value in face-to-face interactions at internships and beginner jobs, Fast Company reports.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as companies held on to employees in an economy that has largely withstood rapidly rising interest rates from the Federal Reserve intended to cool hiring and spending.  

The Baton Rouge metro area is expected to add another 3,000 jobs in the third quarter of this year, according to the latest economic forecast from UL Lafayette’s B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration. 

Longstanding challenges to the power grid and other critical infrastructure might begin to be...

The Biden administration will propose a new rule today that would make 3.6 million more U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay, reviving an Obama-era policy effort that was ultimately scuttled in court.