Posted by Melissa Landry on July 30, 2025Ushering in America’s New Atomic Age: Three Takeaways from the House Oversight Hearing on Nuclear Energy ReformLast week, the U.S. House Committee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs held a [...]Read more
Posted by Vance Ginn, Ph.D. on December 11, 2024Louisiana’s Tax Competitiveness Poised for ImprovementLouisiana ranks 40th in the 2025 State Tax Competitiveness Index, reflecting its historically complex [...]Read more
Posted by Sarah Harbison on April 3, 2024FACT-Government Union Reforms Empower Workers, Not Union ExecutivesFACT-Government Union Reforms Empower Workers, Not Union Executives This spring, the Louisiana [...]Read more
Posted by on May 30, 2023Helping Louisiana’s Comeback by Eliminating the Corporate Franchise TaxThere’s much discussion in Baton Rouge about how to best allocate scarce taxpayer money that’s [...]Read more
Posted by Daniel J. Erspamer on October 11, 2021Louisiana Ranks Among the Worst in the Country for Fiscal HealthLouisiana has earned a D rating in an annual assessment by a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog group that [...]Read more
Posted by on July 11, 2016Report Finds Louisiana’s Fiscal Health “Below Average”Louisiana’s fiscal health ranks 33rd best among the states and Puerto Rico, according to a 2016 report by [...]Read more
Posted by Margaret Viator on August 13, 2014Guest Commentary: Introducing “Article V 2.0”: The Compact for a Balanced BudgetWhat if the states could advance and ratify a powerful federal balanced budget amendment in just twelve [...]Read more
Posted by Jeremy Alford on May 22, 2012Reasons to Worry?Potential conflicts and a growing interest in hedge funds have some eyeing Louisiana’s public retirement [...]Read more
Posted by Jeremy Alford on March 6, 2012The Road to NowhereLouisiana’s long road to education reform has been littered with repeals, phase-outs, incomplete [...]Read more