A Georgetown study is out that touts the results of the state’s Medicaid expansion as a major success when it comes to improving the quality of life in rural communities. The university report showed major declines in the uninsured rate in those communities after the expansion. Research Professor Jack Hoadley says in just two years since the expansion, the disparity between health outcomes in cities and small towns has begun to fall.
After treading water, Congress only has four days to reauthorize the Land and Water conservation fund before the environmental program that helps funds outdoor destinations across the state comes to an end. Louisiana Hypoxia Working Group Coordinator Doug Daigel says if it’s not reauthorized, parish and local efforts to rebuild parks and other family friendly outdoor locations that were damaged in the 2016 floods could be jeopardized.
Cut 8 (10) “…recreation”
According to a new report, the state should see just shy of 60-thousand jobs added between 2019 and 2020. LSU economist Loren Scott says Louisiana economy suffered a 28-month recession losing many jobs in the oil patch including just over 21-thousand jobs in Lafayette and 16-thousand in Houma. It’s now expected that the oil patch has bottomed out and will now be on the rebound.
Cut 13 (10) “…continue to rise.”
Ruston Republican Representative Rob Shadoin is calling it quits after seven years in the Louisiana House. Shadoin is leaving the Capitol to join the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in a legal capacity. He says after nearly a decade of service, the frequent special sessions were becoming too much for his private practice to bear.
Shadoin represented the north Louisiana district that was comprised of Lincoln and Union Parishes.