The numbers coming out of Baton Rouge over the last two years are the kind that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. Since Governor Jeff Landry took office, Louisiana has secured more than $90 billion in capital investment and nearly 80,000 new job opportunities statewide. In 2025 alone — the largest capital investment year in state history — Louisiana announced more than $61 billion in new projects. The state has won Business Facilities' Platinum Deal of the Year awar
Louisiana's tax reform story over the last two years is one worth telling. The 2024 special session produced genuine, structural change: a flat 3% individual income tax, a reduced corporate rate of 5.5%, the elimination of the corporate franchise tax, and permanent full expensing — making Louisiana one of only three states in the country to fully decouple from federal phasedown rules on business investment. The Tax Foundation took notice. Louisiana jumped six spots in its Sta
Louisiana families know what it feels like to stretch a budget. They know what it costs to fill a prescription. And most of them have no idea that a significant reason American drug prices are so high is that wealthy foreign governments — our own allies — have spent decades rigging the system to avoid paying their fair share. That imbalance is now squarely in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, and Louisiana has every reason to pay close attention. A recent analysis f
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