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Gustav effect hurts Oct. jobs
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | 3 days ago
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Technically, Louisiana put 4,700 more people back to work in October...Toss out the two Octobers when the state recovered after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the latest nonfarm employment figure from the Louisiana Workforce Commission — 1,910,800 people...
Tags: Louisiana Workforce Commission, Baton Rouge, Labor, Weather, Business cycle, Baton Rouge Louisiana, Hurricane Gustav, Recessions, Unemployment, Business Finance, Macroeconomics, Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Employment, East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana
Retail sales dip 3% in EBR
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Retail sales in East Baton Rouge Parish fell just over 3 percent in September, with $603.1 million in spending by businesses and consumers, figures from the city-parish Finance Department show. The numbers, which do not include vehicle sales, fell short...
Tags: city limits, retail sales, vehicle sales, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana, Car Allowance Rebate System, Hurricane Gustav, 111th United States Congress, Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Baton Rouge Louisiana, Business Finance
Gustav headed for current that fuels big storms
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The difference between a monster and a wimp for Gulf of Mexico hurricanes often comes down to a small patch of warm deep water that's easy to miss. It's called the Loop Current, and hurricane trackers say Gustav is headed right for it, reminiscent of...
Tags: loop current, Gustav, Katrina, Shay, Washington, Hurricane Katrina, Texas hurricanes, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Gustav, Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical cyclone, Weather
Home sales rise against Gustav effect
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility The Baton Rouge area saw 555 homes sold in October, up from 532 that month the year before, though the gain likely stemmed from depressed 2008 numbers related to Hurricane Gustav. For the year, for example, there have been 5,799 homes sold, down 10 percent...
Tags: Baton Rouge, National Association of Realtors, Real estate broker, Hurricane Gustav, Business Finance, Baton Rouge metropolitan area, Baton Rouge Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana, Disaster Accident, Weather
APNewsBreak: Search halted for 3 missing fishermen
Cape May :: NJ :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility MAY, N.J. — Nearly a day after a commercial fishing boat sank off New Jersey, the Coast Guard ended its search Thursday for the three crew members. The presumed deaths of the captain and two others aboard the 44-foot Sea Tractor bring to nine the number...
Tags: fishing boat, Coast Guard, boat sank, sea tractor, Cape May, Nor'easter, Hurricane Opal, Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment, Search and rescue, United States Coast Guard ships, Cape May County New Jersey, Cape May New Jersey, Fisherman, Hurricane Gustav, Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Grace
Rebuilt N.O. homes at risk without required elevation
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Thousands of homes in New Orleans are at risk from floods because local officials let their owners skirt rebuilding requirements aimed at preventing massive losses and billions in costs to taxpayers. In New Orleans, city records show at least 2,300 homeowners...
Tags: Entergy Gulf States LLC, Hurricane Gustav, hurricanes gustav, Entergy Corp., New Orleans
Not much gas, oil flowing from offshore platforms
Houston :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Offshore oil and gas operators continued restaffing their installations Friday in the wake of shutdowns for hurricanes Gustav and Ike, but production startup was slowed by needed inspections and testing of subsea pipelines that bring resources to shore.
Tags: oil, gas, ike, hurricanes ike, Hurricane Gustav, hurricanes gustav, natural gas
La. state insurer can handle Gustav, Ike
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Louisiana's state-run property insurer of last resort won't be hobbled by the damage claims of hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the state insurance commissioner said Monday...As for Ike, Donelon said he expects far fewer claims because the storm damage in Louisiana...
Tags: Hurricane Gustav, hurricanes gustav, electric cooperatives, Louisiana
Cuba accuses US of lying over aid
Havana :: Cuba | about 1 year ago
Credibility It tries to suggest that it is desperate to cooperate with Cuba, and that we refuse. They lie unscrupulously," the Cuban Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Hurricanes Gustav and Ike have wreaked havoc in Cuba, displacing more than a million people...
Tags: Cuban Foreign Ministry, U.S, United States, Hurricane Gustav, hurricanes gustav, hurricanes ike
The Times-Picayune: Gustav swells unemployment
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility More than 25,000 workers who have become unemployed since Hurricane Gustav have filed for unemployment benefits, 10 times more than the average weekly rate, state labor officials said Thursday. Tim Barfield, executive director of the Louisiana Workforce...
Tags: gustav, storm, Bobby Jindal, north Louisiana, Louisiana Workforce Commission, Hurricane Gustav, food stamps, hurricane ike
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