The Advocate: With future of Louisiana higher education threatened, lawmakers sift through filed bills seeking deficit plug

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal nonprofit in Washington, D.C., reported in January that the poorest 20 percent of households in Louisiana pay an average of 10 percent of their income in state and local taxes, while the wealthiest 1 percent pay an average of 4.2 percent of their income in those taxes.

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