Here's the latest Acadiana business news
| Thursday, August 5th, 2021 |
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with Adam Daigle | Business editor
Good morning, Acadiana. Here's what we have this morning for business news. The job fair held Wednesday fell on the first week the state began declining the federal unemployment benefit. Most of the people who spoke with The Acadiana Advocate at the fair indicated they are already employed and were looking for something better, while the nearly 100 employers were there looking for workers in this era of employee shortages:
'Everybody is eager to hire somebody': Employers take to job fair in hopes of ending working shortageNearly 100 companies were out looking for workers at the job fair, which ended up falling just days after the state stopped taking the $300 weekly federal unemployment benefit as part of the COVID-19 relief bill on top of the state benefit, which maxes out at $247 a week. Here's of the story. |
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 | The largest solar project proposed in Louisiana so far just got a little bigger and expects to sell its power to retail giants such as eBay Inc. and McDonalds Corp. Read more |
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 | LHC Group, a Lafayette-based home health provider, reported second-quarter profit of $37.6 million, or $1.20 per share, compared to $44.7 million, or $1.43 per diluted share a year ago. Read more |
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 | In the wake of LSU's announcement Wednesday that it won't require COVID vaccines, but will require unvaccinated students to be tested monthly this fall, the nine colleges in the University of Louisiana System, which include the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, weighed in with with their planned COVI… Read more |
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