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September 5, 2017
President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw Obama-era legal protections for more than 800,000 immigrants who arrived in the United States as children of undocumented parents. Many recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, have lived in America for decades, building families, careers, and businesses.
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$91 million- Estimated annual loss in Gross State Product that would result from removing DACA workers from Louisiana (Source: Center for American Progress)January 26, 2017
Gov. John Bel Edwards and his administration set up a website to catalogue letters and commentary from citizens and organizations opposed to Rep. Lance Harris’ proposed budget cuts.
November 14, 2016
The Advocate’s editorial page looks at the recent recommendations from the Task Force on Structural Changes in Budget and Tax Policy and likes a lot of what it sees. But after the voters’ rejection of Amendment 3, which sought to eliminate the ability of corporations to deduct federal income taxes on their state returns, that job got considerably tougher.