Prayers for Louisiana and Texas as Hurricane Laura has just been declared Category 4, expected to make landfall early tomorrow. Once again, here is our hurricane survival guide with links to useful toolkits and resources for your safety. Please be careful,…
If you haven’t heard, two named storms have entered the Gulf of Mexico at one time – Marco and Laura. Tropical Storm Marco made landfall last night and continues to weaken with unfavorable upper-level winds. Hurricane Laura has continued to…
As if this year could get any worse, 2020 has been labeled with an “extremely active’ hurricane season, predicting 24 named storms between June and November. Only 21 storm names are allotted each year because the letters Q, U, X,…
Happy Friday! We attended an informative webinar today where the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta presented to the Resilient Louisiana Commission on the state of housing, both locally and nationally. There were lots of insights shared on income disparity, housing…
We just wrapped another successful webinar – don’t forget, we host one every other Thursday at 3 PM CST. If you missed it, the recording will be uploaded within the next 24 hours. New unemployment claims have exceeded 1 million…
There haven’t been any more updates out of Washington regarding COVID-19 relief since yesterday’s proposal draft from the Senate Republicans; nevertheless, we will keep you all posted if we hear anything. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) released a…
Hot off the press, we’ve finally received an update from Capitol Hill on Coronavirus relief! Enclosed is the draft text of the skinny COVID relief proposal from Senate Republicans, including the liability language from the Cornyn bill, the SAFE TO…
Happy Monday! Hope your week is off to a great start. There’s still nothing new from Congress for pandemic or stimulus legislation; however, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi will summon the House back in session to vote on USPS…
The SBA has released a couple more FAQs relating to Paycheck Protection Program loans (see #50-51), as well as new insights in consultation with the Department of the Treasury for PPP loan forgiveness. In Louisiana, Governor Edwards will be rolling…
In today’s breaking news, new unemployment claims fell under 1 million during the week ending August 8th, a decrease of over 200 thousand from the previous week. Hopefully this indicates a labor market in continued recovery. As another day passes…
