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PPP applicants will keep their place in line but should check with lender anyway

Small businesses that missed out on the first round of federal relief in the...

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...

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The recent outbreak of the COVID-19 virus has brought unprecedented levels of disruption and...

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....
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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...

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...

Business taking a hit but don’t want to take out a loan? There’s a tax credit for that

While the Paycheck Protection Program has received much of the limelight for incentivizing businesses...

Virus roundup … 

• U.S. Reps. Garret Graves and Cedric Richmond sent a letter to Gov. John...
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