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Unemployment has increased from 5.3 to 5.9. Therefore the total net jobs is negative. Therefore Biden is correct in his assertion that jobs are in fact being lost in Louisiana.
The article itself doesn't make any sense. How can seasonally adjusted employment rise yet unemployment increase? How can total jobs reported increase yet total unemployment increase? Just because the population increases doesn't mean that the total people in the workforce has increased. Remember that workforce only includes those actively working and those actively seeking employment. The only way this article makes any sense is if Louisiana just experienced a large increase to its total workforce for this one reporting period. Or someone screwed up some math in the process.
Or, if anyone had actually bothered to read the article, they would have seen that the state added jobs in December, while unemployment "rose" over an indeterminate period.
Further, the number of people filing claims for unemployment is not directly tied to the number of people working.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
Between July and September, LA added 17,000 jobs, but unemployment claims increased by 20,000. That means that even though jobs were being created at a very good clip, the unemployment rate had a significant increase.