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No confetti showers or champagne toasts greeted today’s start of the new fiscal year. Instead, there’s massive uncertainty.“I’m assuming you’re not…
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State fiscal analysts did not spare the bad news when the Revenue Estimating Conference met Wednesday.“Sales tax is stagnating,” Legislative Fiscal…
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According to Louisiana’s Constitution, during even-numbered years, like 2016, Legislators cannot introduce bills to create or raise taxes. That is, unless…
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A bill that would require the House Ways and Means and Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs committees to get together and find fixes for the state’s tax…
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Anticipating the coming fiscal year’s massive shortfall, Louisiana’s legislature commissioned a comprehensive analysis of the state’s entire tax…
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$1,600,000,000.“We need to appreciate what we’re saying when we say those words,” LSU economist Jim Richardson admonishes, as Louisiana is standing on the…
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Jim Richardson, veteran economist and member of the Revenue Estimating Conference, has his pulse on Baton Rouge's work force and tells Jim why there…
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The latest American Community Survey from the US Census Bureau was released Thursday. The stats reveal the percentage of individuals in Louisiana living…
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The US Census Bureau released findings from its 2011 American Community Survey on Thursday.The new stats reveal 20.1-percent of Louisianians were living…