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The coronavirus pandemic has caused businesses around the world to question how work gets done, but even before COVID-19 struck, researchers in Iceland were already conducting trials of a shorter workweek that involved about 2,500 workers. 

Many students who borrow money to enroll in graduate school get caught in student debt, but getting an MBA seems to pay off for most graduates.

Since complaints started mounting earlier this month about the number of burned out lights along Interstate 10 through the heart of Baton Rouge, roughly 30 of the 60 or so lights are back on, according to city-parish officials.

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. 

Gov. John Bel Edwards said today he’s largely ending Louisiana’s nearly 3-month-old indoor mask mandate because the state has emerged from its latest coronavirus spike and is seeing lower rates of COVID-19 infection.

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.

Congress is considering reviving taxes on the chemical and petroleum industries to pay for cleanup of polluted sites.