The recent Wall Street Journal ranking of metropolitan job markets across the U.S. was a big black eye for Baton Rouge, which fell a whopping 104 slots among cities of less than 1 million people, dropping from 113 in 2019 to 217 in 2020. That puts the Red Stick squarely between Lake Havasu City-Kingman, Arizona,
Riegel: What rankings really tell us about the Baton Rouge economy
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