Economic Development

Business expansions, relocations, incentives, and investment fueling economic growth across the Baton Rouge area.

As talk pivots to reopening, what does that mean for hotels, travel industry?

While the gradual reopening of the economy may bring relief to some cash-strapped businesses...

State’s trust fund has enough cash to cover 16 more weeks of unemployment

Despite having some of the nation’s highest numbers of unemployment claims, Louisiana’s unemployment benefits...

Virus roundup … 

• President Donald Trump will hold a signing ceremony today for a bill providing...

Louisiana delegates look to defer oil and gas royalty payments, expedite rate reductions

In an effort to mitigate the effects of the oil price crash, members of...

Local Louisiana governments to split $810M from CARES Act, still awaiting distribution rules 

Gov. John Bel Edwards has joined other governors in condemning a suggestion by Sen....

Sen. John Kennedy: Free enterprise, not more relief, needed to restart economy

The U.S. House of Representatives may pass a $484 billion coronavirus aid package later...
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Tumbling oil prices could make state budget decisions even tougher 

Yesterday’s announcement that Louisiana would delay the collection of severance taxes by two months...

Taxes, regulatory rollbacks, among items on table at legislative task force meeting

A legislative task force of more than 50 business leaders from around the state...

PAR: Seven key questions for getting Louisiana back to business

The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana issued its own commentary yesterday on how...

Virus roundup …

• As of Wednesday, April 22, the Louisiana Workforce Commission says it has paid...
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