BATON ROUGE, La. -- Initial claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana remained virtually unchanged last week.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission says that for the week ending March 14, there were 4,526 new claims, just seven fewer than the previous week.
The latest number is nearly double that of the comparable week of 2008 when the state received 2,337 initial unemployment claims.
Last week also showed an increase in continuing claims with 41,230, about 300 more from the previous week.
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