Economic Development

Children are back to school and day cares this fall, but child care worker shortages are affecting households across the country and in Louisiana, sidelining some women’s careers. 

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and LSU Health New Orleans’ Baton Rouge campus will partner to provide “an immersive experience” for pre-medical students at LSU, officials say.

Baton Rouge-based community currency Moxey is partnering with Citizens Bank and Trust

The Louisiana Budget Project this week sent direct mail urging voters to oppose Amendment 2, which would trigger major changes to the state’s tax structure—changes that business interests support. 

The board of directors of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber today announced its support for the tax millage renewal of the Capital Area Transit System, which will appear on the Nov. 13 ballot. 

As the deadline for communities to apply for funding to fix their water and sewer systems approaches, lawmakers are still struggling to untangle the application process. 

The developers of the new Mossville Rail Port are benefitting from some rather fortuitous...

With greater scrutiny around compliance of companies that receive property tax abatements under the state’s Industrial Tax Exemption Program, the Metro Council will be asked to weigh in on whether two local companies that fell out of compliance should be allowed to continue receiving the tax break.

The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry opted today not to punish companies that have failed to live up to their Industrial Tax Exemption Program agreements to receive property tax breaks. 

The coronavirus pandemic has caused businesses around the world to question how work gets done, but even before COVID-19 struck, researchers in Iceland were already conducting trials of a shorter workweek that involved about 2,500 workers.