Louisiana’s Republican delegation just made a devastating choice, voting to preserve massive tax cuts for the wealthy, while stripping health care from nearly 200,000 of their own constituents. With their support for Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” passed in the Senate on July 1 and expected to clear the House this week, Louisiana […]
A coalition of Senate Democrats is warning that Louisiana could be one of the hardest-hit states under a Republican-backed health care proposal passed by the U.S. House. The legislation—part of a broader reconciliation package—includes more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, along with $500 billion in Medicare reductions. According […]
Donald Trump has dubbed it “one big beautiful bill.” But for many in Louisiana—and across the country—it looks more like a blueprint for deepening inequality. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) offers a sobering analysis of the Republican tax-and-spending proposal. The findings bluntly show America’s poorest households stand to lose the most, […]
By criminalizing kratom, Louisiana lawmakers aren’t solving a problem. Instead, they’re planting the seeds of a new one. Assuming the governor does not veto, on August 1, Senate Bill 154 will go into effect, banning the sale and possession of kratom across the state. But this misguided crackdown doesn’t remove risk from the streets. It […]
The Sales Tax Hike Has Already Hit, and It’s Bleeding Working Families In January 2025, the Louisiana sales tax hike and new tax structure went into effect, permanently shifting the burden of funding our state onto those least able to afford it. Politicians and their lobbyists dressed it up in the language of “modernization” and […]
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