BATON ROUGE (AP) — The state releases January job figures for Louisiana today.
Due to federally mandated adjustments states must make every year to their figures, a picture of the job scene hasn’t been available since the December report. That report said Louisiana wound up with a net gain of 8,500 jobs for 2008.
Since December, though, national employment has slipped deeper into recession with a U.S. rate of 8.1 percent in February. And the latest state report still won’t catch up with some events — including the planned elimination of 1,200 jobs from Pilgrim’s Pride in Farmerville.
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