There was a time when expanding health coverage was seen as the best way to improve Louisiana’s poor health rankings. Gov. Bobby Jindal supported this idea as recently as November 2008, he was pushing for the “Louisiana Health First” plan, which would have let Louisiana use Medicaid dollars to buy private health coverage for low-income parents and caregivers who earned up to 50 percent of the federal poverty rate – an estimated 60,000 people.… Read more...
A new report on the high cost of film credits made headlines across the state, and our budget analysts continued to weigh in on the ongoing debate over tax exemptions during a busy month at the Louisiana Budget Project.
LBP was cited more than 20 times in news articles and editorials.… Read more...