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Higher salaries are doing little to ease the accountant shortage 

The salaries offered to U.S. accountants and auditors last year climbed at their quickest...

​​Is the Baton Rouge-area housing market becoming more favorable to buyers?

Homes in East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes are on average less affordable for local buyers than a year ago but more affordable than last quarter, according to a new report. 

Medicare and Social Security forecast to run short of money over in next decade

The financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on—and millions more young people...

See what’s coming into the former Golden Corral space on Sherwood Forest

The new owner of the former Golden Corral space on South Sherwood Forest has...

GDP, personal income up nationwide; see how Louisiana stacks up

Louisiana experienced growth in personal income and gross domestic product in the fourth quarter, but not as much as the nation as a whole.

‘LaPolitics’: Louisiana’s congressional delegation is making moves

Hammer time: Second-term U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow of Start wielded the gavel on Capitol...
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What Americans are now saying about the value of a college degree

A majority of Americans don’t think a college degree is worth the cost, according...

A key inflation gauge slowed sharply in February

The Federal Reserve's favored inflation gauge slowed sharply last month, an encouraging sign in the central bank’s yearlong effort to cool price pressures through steadily higher interest rates.

Central Rep. Barry Ivey pushing for flat state income tax

A Louisiana lawmaker is proposing a flat tax that he says would actually benefit poor residents while maintaining conservative principles. 

EBR’s population keeps falling, but these neighboring parishes grew

East Baton Rouge Parish lost an estimated 3,109 residents from July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2022, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau.