Slowing growth cited: Netflix is cutting 1,000 positions globally, or about 6% of its staff, in its largest round of layoffs since 2022. The streaming giant is struggling with slowing growth and customer engagement. The majority of the cuts will be in the company’s product, tech, legal and human resources teams. The Wall Street Journal has the full story.
Mailings investigated: Federal authorities are investigating letters with “suspicious substances” that have been mailed to congressional and election offices nationwide and are urging recipients to treat the mailings as “potentially hazardous.” Mailed packages containing a powdery substance led to the evacuation this week of election offices in at least two states, Louisiana and Oklahoma. In Congress, the threat appeared limited to the Senate, though the House was monitoring the situation. The Associated Press has the full story.
Insurance shake-up: The Louisiana Department of Health on Thursday opened a monthlong enrollment period for people in the Healthy Blue Medicaid program to switch to another plan for 2027. Healthy Blue, offered by Louisiana Blue and Elevance Health, is pulling out of Louisiana’s Medicaid program at the end of the year. The plan’s 274,000 members must join one of the four remaining Medicaid plans. Enrollment will end Nov. 16. Louisiana Illuminator has the full story.
