A suspected road rage incident in Jefferson Parish claimed three lives Saturday. Trooper Monroe Dillon says it began when 49-year-old Paul Ferrara of New Orleans tried to pass a driver in a no-pass zone during bad weather. He was unable and later down the road Ferrara rammed the other driver’s truck…
The crash killed Ferrara and two others in another vehicle.
The House Ways and Means Committee approves legislation eliminating the ability for Louisiana taxpayers to deduct taxes paid to the IRS on their state return, but individual income tax rates would drop. Public Affairs Research Council President Robert Travis Scott…
Those who make 50-thousand dollars or above would see their individual income tax rates drop from six to 4.25 percent.
Lawmakers are happy to hear that the state added 35-hundred individuals to the state’s workforce from February to March and the unemployment rate has dropped slightly to seven-point-three percent, the lowest rate since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says nearly 130-thousand people have returned to work as the state nears the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 impact on the workforce and their Hire Site has tens of thousands of job openings…
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18-hundred leisure and hospitality jobs were added from February to March.