The state Board of Commerce and Industry agrees to give a developer planning to build a massive liquefield natural gas export facility in Calcasieu Parish a tax break that could eventually reach two-billion dollars. The advocacy group, Together Louisiana, objected. Broderick Bagert says local government taxing bodies did not give residents enough information about the project…
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But the board voted 17-2 in favor of the tax break. Governor John Bel Edwards must give final approval.

Despite lower premiums, Obamacare individual market signups are down 10 percent in Louisiana on the eve of the December 15th deadline for enrollment. State Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says proponents of Obamacare are pointing towards a lower investment in advertising for the service, but he thinks locally there’s a more obvious answer.
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He also credits an improving economy for bringing down the numbers, as more indviduals are on employer based health plans.

Former Congressman Charles Boustany says the trade war with China is failing, and Louisiana taxpayers have paid so far an additional 85-million dollars in additional tariffs, 19-million dollars in October alone. Boustany says the trade war is a hurricane, and we’re starting to feel the first bands of bad economic weather…
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Boustany is a spokesman for Tariffs Hurt the Heartland.

The Loyola University New Orleans Jesuit Social Research Institute finds Louisiana has the second highest rate of food insecurity. An estimated 784-thousand residents struggle with hunger and contributing to the problem is food deserts, the lack of grocery stores in low income, minority neighborhoods. Father Fred Kammer..
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The report concludes Louisiana needs to make food policy a higher priority.