For almost two years now, one key question has overhung the debate over Louisiana’s structural budget shortfall: What will it take for House Republicans to support a package of permanent, sustainable revenue measures to replace the temporary, 1-cent sales tax enacted in 2016?
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70,953 - Total state employees at the end of the 2016-17 fiscal year, down from 100,486 in FY2009 (Source: Popular Annual Financial Report/Division of Administration)