Tax & Budget

At first glance, you might think that Louisiana’s economy is doing great. After all, the state’s [...]

The state’s revenue forecasting committee met last week. This was not the much-anticipated annual meeting [...]

We recently outlined what’s at stake with each of the Constitutional amendments on the October ballot. Of [...]

Louisiana’s Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, the committee of state lawmakers that meets [...]

Key Point: Louisiana’s labor market shows improvement on the surface but there are underlying problems [...]

Louisiana’s 2023 Regular Legislative Session ended on June 8th with a bang. Amid much arguing and a lot [...]

$250,000 for marching band uniforms? $50,000 to cut grass? $125,000 to repair a historic barn? These are [...]

There’s much discussion in Baton Rouge about how to best allocate scarce taxpayer money that’s [...]

You may have heard that the state of Louisiana is facing a “fiscal cliff” and this is why the Legislature [...]