Congressional hearing on unemployment poorly attended

A hearing of the Joint Economic Committee recently met to discuss long term unemployment. Only 4 of the 20 committee members attended. No Republican Member attended.

Case filings down nationally, up locally

According to one study analyzing case filings in federal court, Civil Rights filings dipped in January and February and relative to a year ago are smaller in number. But going back to February of 2008 as one chart in the study shows,  there is an annual dip in nationwide filings at the beginning of the new year. However, the short term trend in Louisiana's Eastern District and Mississippi's Southern District reflects higher filings. The EDLA ranked 8th this year, but 28th last year. SDM ranked 10th as compared to 26th last year.