The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has released an Economic Climate Update for Baton Rouge. You can view it by clicking here.

Some highlights include:

- Baton Rouge was one of nine metro areas in the U.S. to have experienced six months of positive over the year job growth since the start of the recession.
- The Brookings Institute ranks Baton Rouge as the 8th best performing metro area during the current recession.
- Baton Rouge had the lowest foreclosure rate of 100 metro areas in 2008.

This past Wednesday, the DBE Fair Share Task Force held its first meeting. I caught up with two of the members to get their thoughts on the inaugural meeting.