Gov. John Bel Edwards toured the crumbling Middleton Library at Louisiana’s flagship university and made a pitch for reinvestment on Thursday.
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$51 million - Additional federal flood recovery money heading to Louisiana, bringing the total allocation to about $1.7 billion. This total is less than half the request from Louisiana’s congressional delegation. (Source: The Advocate)
Last week, Gov. John Bel Edwards released his plan to cover both the $440 million shortfall for the coming fiscal year and the looming fiscal cliff - now estimated at almost $1.4 billion.
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$1.2 billion - Amount of federal flood relief aid approved for Louisiana last week (Source: The Associated Press)
