Have your say: The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is urging businesses and community leaders from the Capital Region to complete its annual economic outlook survey before Friday’s deadline. Responses will be compiled in BRAC’s 2015 Economic Outlook, which will be unveiled at BRAC’s Regional Stakeholders’ Breakfast on Tuesday, Nov. 18, as part of Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week. “Feedback from the business community across the region is a vital component of BRAC’s annual economic outlook survey,” says Adam Knapp, president and CEO of BRAC. Take the survey online.
Growing hungry: The United States ranks near the bottom of the pack of wealthy nations on a measure of child poverty, according to a new report from UNICEF. And as The Washington Post highlights in its coverage of the report, Louisiana—at 40.7%—has the nation’s second highest share of its children living in households with an income below 60% of the national median income in 2008, about $31,000 annually. New Mexico has only a slightly higher rate, at 41.9%. Read the full story.
Prognosticators of doom: The world can only consume a fraction of the known deposits of fossil fuels if it’s to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change, according to the biggest assessment of the issue published yet. Burning reserves of oil, natural gas and coal already identified by national governments and commodity companies would cause widespread droughts, more-violent storms and melting of polar ice caps, a long-awaited report by a panel of climate scientists gathered by the United Nations says. Bloomberg has the full story.
