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Financial anxiety is driving a worsening mental health crisis among millennial and Gen Z workers, Fast Company reports.  Surveying 1,000 U.S. employees ages 18 to 44, a new report from Modern Health ...
Gov. Jeff Landry announced a leadership shake-up Friday at the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, naming Rebecca Harris as the agency’s next secretary and appointing Judge David ...
Big U.S. EV battery makers are stepping back from the market that got them started and betting on a new set of customers in an entirely different business, The Wall Street Journal writes.  Instead of ...
New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money from checking and savings accounts into financial vehicles that pay an investment income—a trend that helps to explain the resilience of ...
The Main Street Plaza Shopping Center property in Zachary has changed hands. Georgia company Randolph Property Group Main St ...
The former Rite Aid property on the corner of Corporate Boulevard and Jefferson Highway near Towne Center is being ...
Newton Thomas, who founded The Newtron Group, a $1 billion Baton Rouge-based industrial construction contractor, died Saturday at the age of 81. Thomas began his career as a project estimator with ...
Insured losses for the first half of the year have reached $84 billion globally, CNBC reports, the highest first half total since 2011.  That’s according to a recent Gallagher Re report, which states ...
With summer in full swing in the U.S., retail executives are sweating a different season. It’s less than 22 weeks before Christmas, a time when businesses that make and sell consumer goods usually ...
Baton Rouge-based Cornerstone Flooring Companies has acquired Craft Croswell, a commercial flooring company based in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Cornerstone has grown steadily since its founding in 2002, ...
Major dredging operations are complete on three of the lakes in the LSU lakes system and work is continuing on the largest and most complex sections, The Center Square writes.  Rob Stuart, speaking on ...
The White House Council of Economic Advisers on Thursday released a report highlighting the Trump administration’s energy strategy, projecting that policies aimed at “unleashing American energy” could ...