The Tax Foundation
June 22, 2018
After a day of heated negotiations and long delays on Thursday, the House failed to pass any tax measures to replace expiring revenue and avoid the fiscal cliff.
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0.68 percent- Louisiana’s population growth rate from 2007 to 2017. (Source: Pew Trust)June 1, 2018
TOPS scholarships, mental health services, substance abuse treatment and local sheriffs are just a few of the priorities that would be hit by severe cuts in the latest version of the 2018-19 budget that cleared the House on Thursday.
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25 - Number of inmates who died in East Baton Rouge Parish Jail from 2012-16 - a rate that is 2.5 times the national average. (Source: Reuters)August 28, 2017
How bad is the financial crunch at Louisiana's colleges and universities? So bad that at Nicholls State University, appropriations from the state are no longer enough to cover all "mandated" costs - money that goes back to the state to pay for pensions, security, health benefits and the like.