Unemployment grows in committee

The storm scattered Louisiana people across the nation, and the unemployment benefit bills are coming into Louisiana from across the nation, too.

The numbers of unemployed seems to grow in explicably. In a meeting of the Joint Committee on the Budget Friday, the first number tossed out as the number of unemployed was 330,000. A few moments later, someone else cited 340,000 unemployed after the hurricanes. After a short time, another committee member said the number was 350,000.

At that rate, no one in Louisiana will be working by the time this special session ends.