Legislators continue to dig into the challenging market for property and auto insurance in Louisiana and the topic is expected to be a major focus of the 2025 Legislative Session. For a new data report series for 2025, Leaders for a Better Louisiana collected available information on insurance factors. These may be useful for citizens, […]

For more than 60 years CABL has been a leader in developing, promoting, and protecting policies to move Louisiana forward. Today we are announcing a brand new chapter in that long history that sets the stage for an even more dynamic future. CABL is merging with the Committee of 100 for Economic Development to form […]

Early voting is underway and there are four constitutional amendments on the ballot for the December 7 election. That might not be enough to spur a heavy turnout, but amendments to the constitution are still important. It’s hard to know exactly why lawmakers decided to place only one amendment on the November ballot and save […]

CABL applauds Louisiana lawmakers for approving legislation that, on the whole, makes major improvements in the state’s tax structure. The reductions in the state personal and corporate income tax rates and elimination of the franchise tax will do much to make Louisiana’s tax structure more competitive and position the state as a desirable place for […]

The special session on tax reform just getting underway is a big one. It represents the most significant attempt to rewrite large sections of our tax code that we have seen in years. How successful it will be remains to be seen, but whatever the outcome, this is a debate Louisiana should have. Tax reform […]

RESET Louisiana is a nonpartisan collaboration between the Council for A Better Louisiana, the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana and the Committee of 100 for Economic Development. Its goal is to pursue public policy initiatives that will improve the state’s future. As part of this work, RESET hired well-known economist and fiscal expert Greg […]

Early voting starts Friday, October 18 and this is one of those elections where a lot of voters probably don’t know what they don’t know. What does that mean? In many places, there are a lot of items on the ballot. The marquee race this election cycle is pretty self-evident – it’s time to choose […]

It has the feeling of déjà vu. Every time there is talk of a budget shortfall, there’s talk about cuts to higher education. It’s happening yet again, which is unfortunate, since increasing education attainment in Louisiana needs to be one of our top priorities. As of now the state is looking at a potential budget […]

In response to Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to call lawmakers into a special session to debate tax reform, RESET Louisiana has hired well-known economist and fiscal expert Greg Albrecht to conduct an independent analysis of the proposals and determine how they would impact taxpayers. Albrecht worked at the Louisiana Legislative Fiscal Office from 1985 until […]

There was a lot of discussion this year about calling a constitutional convention to overhaul Louisiana’s notoriously long, complicated, and overly-prescriptive state constitution. That effort eventually died due to session fatigue and other factors, but lawmakers’ desire to make changes to the constitution was evident in the number of constitutional amendments they filed during this […]