LOUISIANA
Percent Unemployed Getting Benefits: 20% (tied- seventh lowest)
Percent Average Weekly Wage Covered: 24.8% (second lowest)
Unemployment Rate: 4.5% (10th lowest)
Black Unemployment Rate (2013): 12.2%
Louisiana out-of-job workers receive an average of $208 a week in the 12 months through the first quarter of 2014, less than all but two other states.
Unemployment insurance benefits are 24.8% of workers’ previous average wages, the second-lowest rate in the nation.
Only 20% of the unemployed received benefits, well below the nationwide share of 27%.