Initial claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana jumped nearly 29.5% for the week ending April 4, says Louisiana Workforce Commission. Initial claims for the latest week totaled 5,910, compared with 4,563 for the previous week. State officials blamed most of the increase on sharply higher numbers of unemployed workers coming from the wood products industry and the transportation equipment industry, which includes the hard-hit automobile manufacturing sector, headed by the GM plant in Shreveport. For the comparable week a year ago, there were 2,365 initial filings for jobless benefits. Continued unemployment insurance weeks increased to 44,478 for the latest week, up from 43,295 and 20,568 for the comparable week ending April 5, 2008.
Initial jobless claims jump almost 30% in Louisiana
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