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December 14, 2017
Gov. John Bel Edwards has spent months talking to legislators and business groups around the state, trying to develop collaborative solutions to the $1.5 billion budget shortfall the state faces in 2018.
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$10.6 million - Amount of property tax revenue lost by Orleans Parish in 2017 due to the state’s Industrial Tax Exemption Program, which local governments now have authority to limit. (Source: Nola.com/The Times Picayune reporting on a Together Louisiana analysis)February 10, 2017
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ plan to patch the mid-year budget shortfall leans heavily on tapping the state’s Budget Stabilization Fund, commonly known as the rainy-day fund.
June 22, 2016
With less than three days left in the second special fiscal session, lawmakers have raised only $284 million of the $600 million needed to close gap in next year’s budget.
February 10, 2016
La Budget forecast: From bad to worse; The Obama budget; Homeless in Baton Rouge; and Oil prices ‘wreaking havoc’ on debt