Fiscal year
Paying Down Debt Yields the Savings Promised
Pelican previously highlighted the state budget that busted through its own limits to spend billions in [...]
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Louisiana Economic Situation—June 2023
Key Point: Louisiana’s labor market shows improvement on the surface but there are underlying problems [...]
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Big Budget Blowout
Louisiana’s 2023 Regular Legislative Session ended on June 8th with a bang. Amid much arguing and a lot [...]
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So Much Money!
Over the last few years, there has been a much larger influx of taxpayer revenues than usual. Since [...]
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Money Money Money
Money is always a problem for state governments. Too little of it makes it challenging to meet the [...]
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The Broken Promises of Louisiana’s Medicaid Expansion
Some in Louisiana want to claim that the state’s expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied adults represents a [...]
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New LSU “Jobs” Study about Benefits of Medicaid Expansion Raises More Questions Than It Answers
by Chris Jacobs The release by the Louisiana Department of Health late Friday afternoon of an updated [...]
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Louisiana Ranked Among Worst States for Business
Remarkably, the report ranks Louisiana 30 spots lower than it did last year. This represents the largest [...]
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Louisiana’s Business Climate Rated Highly in Recent Studies
It is widely expected that tax reform will be the Jindal administration’s primary goal in the 2013 [...]
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