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10.03.2024
RESET Louisiana Analyzing Implications of Tax Bills
- Budget & Taxes
- RESET
In response to Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to call lawmakers into a special session to debate tax reform, RESET Louisiana has hired well-known economist and fiscal expert Greg Albrecht to conduct an independent analysis of the proposals and determine how they would impact taxpayers.
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10.01.2024
PAR Statement on Governor’s Proposed Tax Reform
- Budget & Taxes
The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana believes comprehensive, responsible tax reform is long overdue. The state’s tax system is cluttered with too many exemptions, deductions and credits. It contains outdated, uncompetitive taxes that are out of step with the rest of the country.
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07.22.2024
Louisiana’s Food Stamp Usage
- Budget & Taxes
Nearly one in five people in Louisiana, about 867,000 low-income residents on average each month, received financial food aid across the last year through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, according to the latest data available from the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services.
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06.04.2024
2024 Session: Chipping Away at Sunshine
- Budget & Taxes
- Legislature
- Open Meetings & Public Records
A year after lawmakers passed the state budget in a frenzied final few minutes before theirdeadline, the Louisiana Legislature adopted a $49 billion compromise package of spending plansthis year with time to spare and no last-minute chaos in their three-month regular session.
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05.10.2024
Another Budget Windfall
- Budget & Taxes
A boost to Louisiana’s state income projections will give lawmakers more money to spend over the next 14 months, even as the post-pandemic financial surge continues to taper off and a fiscal downturn edges ever closer.
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04.29.2024
Budget Debate Focuses on Education
- Budget & Taxes
- Education & Workforce
The state budget crafted by the Louisiana House steers new money to public school programs at the expense of early childhood education, while maintaining the governor’s push to grow spending on state prisons and police.
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03.26.2024
Expanding School Choice
- Budget & Taxes
- Education & Workforce
Education savings accounts are the newest, most expansive evolution of school choice programs in the United States, already adopted by several states and under consideration in many others, including Louisiana. The programs promise to revolutionize how K-12 education is structured, steering public tax dollars to private educational options for students.
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02.09.2024
New Governor’s First Budget
- Budget & Taxes
Gov. Jeff Landry’s first set of budget recommendations as governor prioritizes increased spendingon Louisiana’s prison system and an expansion of the State Police force while keeping spending largely flat on most other programs and services.
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08.22.2023
RESET: Budget
- Budget & Taxes
- RESET
Louisiana should make budget decisions that put the state on sound fiscal footing and ready for any financial problems on the horizon.
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08.22.2023
RESET: Taxes
- Budget & Taxes
- RESET
Louisiana should provide a fair, simple and competitive tax environment for individuals and businesses that produces sufficient and stable revenue for essential government operations and services.
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08.01.2023
Managing Medicaid Disenrollment
- Budget & Taxes
- Health Care
- Insurance
Louisiana has started removing tens of thousands of people from the state’s Medicaid program, more than 50,000 so far, either because they no longer qualify for the taxpayer financed health insurance or at least haven’t proven they remain eligible.
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07.27.2023
2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast
- Budget & Taxes
- Coastal Restoration & Protection
While last year’s Hurricane Ian devastated Florida and the Carolinas, Louisiana experienced a quiet hurricane season in 2022. This year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts “near normal” hurricane activity in the Atlantic for the season that started June 1 and will end November 30.
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07.10.2023
Law Enforcement Pay
- Budget & Taxes
- Education & Workforce
Part 4 of a four-part series addressing public employee compensation in Louisiana.