More Broken Records: December Unemployment Rate Was Lowest Ever for Month of December
January 24, 2023
January 24, 2023
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 24 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following statement:
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Louisiana's December 2022 unemployment rate was the lowest ever for the month of December, coming in at 3.5%. Since December 2021, Louisiana's unemployment rate has dropped 0.9 percentage points from 4.4%, and Louisiana has added 46,200 jobs. Since the worst of the pandemic, Louisiana's unemployment rate has dropped 9.6 percentage points from 13.1% . . .
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Louisiana's December 2022 unemployment rate was the lowest ever for the month of December, coming in at 3.5%. Since December 2021, Louisiana's unemployment rate has dropped 0.9 percentage points from 4.4%, and Louisiana has added 46,200 jobs. Since the worst of the pandemic, Louisiana's unemployment rate has dropped 9.6 percentage points from 13.1% . . .