Insight: Ideas to Balance State Budget in Short Supply

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries ,

Melinda Deslatte

Published May 23, 2014 at 5:40 AM CDT

With just 10 days left in the legislative session, we’re down to the nitty gritty: lawmakers are trying to figure out how to sew up the state budget. And earlier this week, the Revenue Estimating Committee rebuffed the Jindal administration’s wish to include $54 million in revenue that could come with changes to how the state Dept. of Revenue does its tax collecting, according to a group of consultants on the hunt for savings in the state budget.

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Amy Jeffries

Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

Melinda Deslatte

Insight: Ideas to Balance State Budget in Short Supply

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