Katrina blows away 224,000 local jobs view story
Thursday, October 27, 2005 Ronette King - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
| The unemployment rate in the New Orleans area reached a staggering 14.8 percent in September, a modern record, as the metropolitan area lost 38 percent of its jobs in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore, according to figures released Tuesday by the state Labor Department.
|
wireless
my file
comments
view story