The Tax Foundation ranks Louisiana in the bottom ten for the least business-friendly tax code. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Governor John Bel Edwards budget proposal for next fiscal year calls on the legislature to approve nearly a million dollars in pay raises for his staff, Cabinet secretaries and other high-level political appointees. Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says these employees have not seen a raise since 2016.

Louisiana has the second-highest decline in marriage rate in the country. That’s according to Quote Wizard who used data from the National Centers for Health Statistics. The state’s marriage rate fell 28-percent according to the report. But LSU Health New Orleans clinical psychologist Amy Dickson says this doesn’t mean there are fewer couples in committed relations…
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But Mississippi has the largest increase in marriage rate in the country at 31-percent.

100 new jobs are coming to Webster Parish as a Canadian Company called E-I Williams Industries plans to invest 700-thousand dollars into an existing facility to manufacture industrial sound-control equipment. President of the Louisiana Economic Partnership Scott Martinez says Northwest Louisiana Technical College will help develop the workforce…
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Martinez says the state first approached E-I Williams at a trade show in Calgary last June.