Legislature again stops business tax hike for unemployment trust fund

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Louisiana lawmakers have agreed to keep the rules governing the state’s unemployment trust fund static, avoiding the increase in business taxes and the drop in jobless benefits that would have otherwise been triggered by the draining of the trust fund. The unemployment fund is nearly bankrupt after more than a year of payments to workers

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