December 23, 2009
Louisiana
By Robert Travis Scott at Times-Picayune
BATON ROUGE — Obligated to close a $247.9 million gap in the current-year state budget, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced cuts for agencies across the board Tuesday, including $108.1 million in health dollars and $84 million from higher education.
Slack tax revenue during the recession is leaving state coffers short of anticipated [...]
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November 3, 2009
Mississippi
Gov. Haley Barbour says Mississippi’s tax revenue for October was 6.7 percent below estimates, and he doesn’t expect the trend to change soon. By The Associated Press, The Daily Journal (Tupelo)
Six companies that list Mississippi as part of their service areas have been tapped to receive a combined $320 million in new-market tax credits [...]
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