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Louisiana consistently ranks in the bottom national percentile of categories like poverty, income inequality and life expectancy. While data shows the state is improving in some categories post pandemic, others are worsening.
Leaders for a Better Louisiana and the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana (PAR) have partnered to release the State of the States Report 2026, an independent assessment of Louisiana’s performance across 30 benchmarks.
The Louisiana Legislature completed its work on the state’s multibillion-dollar budget days ahead of the deadline, in a regular session temporarily disrupted by another divisive redistricting debate and ending with uncertainty for public school teachers.
Budget debates are getting tougher for Louisiana lawmakers after the state’s income forecasting panel downgraded its projections for the next 13 months. The forecast reductions aren’t deep enough to threaten damaging cuts across services, but they will give lawmakers less ability to expand existing or create new programs. Senators will need to shrink the budget […]
The Louisiana House supported Gov. Jeff Landry’s multibillion-dollar roadmap for spending next year, making only modest changes and keeping intact the governor’s push to allocate more money for economic development, prisons and an education voucher program.
With his latest budget proposal, Gov. Jeff Landry is restarting what appears likely to be an annual debate of whether and how to expand Louisiana’s education voucher program. Again, he’s hitting resistance.
Louisiana’s governor and lawmakers are getting a little something extra in their holiday stockings this year, courtesy of the state income forecasting panel.