66-percent of the adults who participated in an LSU Public Policy Research Lab poll say the state is heading in the wrong direction. LSU Manship School associate professor Doctor Michael Henderson says only 26-percent say the state is heading in the right direction.
“Some of the most pessimistic results we’ve seen on this survey since we started in 2004,” said Dr. Henderson.
Just over 600 adults participated in the online survey. Henderson says respondents say the economy, education, and infrastructure are the most important problems.
“This year we saw about a third mention transportation infrastructure, especially roads and highways, so a lot of discontent,” said Henderson.
Henderson says the concern about crime more than doubled from 10 percent last year to 24 percent this year. He says confidence in state government to solve the problems dropped to 25-percent, the lowest point since 2004.
“We’ve seen a pretty steady erosion of confidence in state government to solve important problems since about 2010,” said Henderson.
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