Figures Show La. Added Jobs Over Year
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Workforce Commission says the state added 9,500 non-farm jobs from January 2010 to January 2011.
Seasonally adjusted figures released Thursday by the commission showed 1,887,200 nonfarm jobs in January. It was a decrease of 3,200 jobs from December but it was up 9,500 over the year.
Private industry jobs were up 18,900 by the seasonally adjusted count, while government shed 9,400 jobs.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Louisiana in January was 7.8 percent, up slightly from 7.7 percent for December. The number of unemployed people in Louisiana in January was 161,916, an increase of 1,898 from December 2010.
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