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Even as they wisely steer money to debt payments, education and infrastructure investments, Louisiana lawmakers also are making the short-sighted, politically driven decision to spend millions of dollars on local pet projects without public vetting or explanation.
Louisiana’s Medicaid program provides health care coverage to nearly 2 million people, 42% of thepopulation, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. The percentage of state population enrolled in Medicaid increased about 5% from early 2020 to July 2021.
Plans by Gov. John Bel Edwards and lawmakers to spend Louisiana’s booming pandemic tax collections are running into complications because of constitutional restraints aimed at limiting the growth in state spending each year.
Louisiana lawmakers are entering their latest regular session flush with cash and no shortage of ideas for spending it. Governor kicks off budget talks with focus on education, roads and debt payments.
Louisiana is awash in state and federal cash, but will the state spend it smartly or blow it?
Louisiana lawmakers are using the state’s budget boom to pay off much of a $1.1 billion multiyear debt owed to the federal government for flood protection system improvements constructed across the New Orleans region after Hurricane Katrina.
Legislators made significant progress toward many of the RESET agenda’s goals.