re: How does Louisiana attract more white collar jobs?

It has to be extreme and revolutionary:

1 - eliminate tort system (liability insurance is a tax)
2 - incentivize poor to move away (financial incentive to sell property, stop welfare and social programs)
3 - eliminate income tax
4 - incentivize property redevelopment (property tax credits)
5 - privatize government
6 - end corporate tax and regulations

You have to curb crime and improve public schools. It is not normal to spend the extra money on catholic private schools. The person you want moving in finds this very strange.

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1 - eliminate tort system

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You have a long history of not putting much emphasis on education in this state, and it shows in the industries and jobs available. At present we have government schools pushing people through it rather than educating them for their own future, an enormous disservice to those who they push through, being completely unprepared for life that awaits them, and completely ill equipped to prosper in it. Change this big is not going to come overnight. It’s going to take a lot of time, but if you don’t at least start by changing mindsets in education K-12, how can you ever expect to see change take place long term with higher education, or even just graduating people with a basic understanding of the way life works?

We take a kid in public schools and push them through the system, never teaching them cause and effect, hard work, study habits, and work ethics that will pay dividends for them in the future, and then when they get out we scratch our heads why they don’t achieve. They simply never learned the basic building blocks for success as kids, and so what do we really expect to happen, that some grand epiphany will come over them one night and they’re going to start putting their nose to the grindstone and educating themselves? Some do, but most all do not. They fall into the life trap, and that is where hopelessness and doom await, then enters drugs and dependence, because you have to fill the void with something.

The biggest city is Baton Rouge, New Orleans was left behind before Katrina

It’s going to be awfully tough. Southern states like Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida have such an established advantage now that companies basically automatically kick the tires there first

Add bleach while washing the blue collared shirts.

Our spending per student k-12 and higher ed is actually top 1/3 of states in the U.S. It's not purely an investment in education. Look at TOPS - huge spend but at the end of the day it's subsidizing TX's workforce.

To land 5-10 more IBM/DXC projects we need to over subsidize them a la Jindal/Moret. Our talent isn't shovel ready. Not bc we don't have smart people - everywhere does. It's hard to have experienced people in a vacuum. We also need one of the FAANG companies to stop talking about diversity and actually make a move that has impact - hire in S. Louisiana. So far Microsoft is the only one that has done it with their inXile Studio in Uptown. Hopefully they grow it.