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Louisiana residents have more than $600 million in unclaimed property and Acadiana residents can see if any of this money belongs to them at an Unclaimed Property Awareness Day on Saturday, Aug. 23 at the Acadiana Mall here in Lafayette.

The state of Louisiana is holding about $635 million worth of unclaimed money and property, and state treasury officials are hoping to give much of that money back.

The Unclaimed Property Program has returned more than nearly $338 million to nearly 570,000 Louisiana citizens.

Treasurer John Kennedy says Lafayette's already thriving health-care industry makes it the ideal place to train new doctors and expand health-care access in the state.

State Treasurer John Kennedy said he has a plan to fund higher education at a higher level, but it has received opposition from members of the Senate Finance Committee and from the administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal.

State Treasurer John Kennedy is urging the Department of Corrections to re-open the Phelps Correctional Center as an inmate charter school.

The abuse according to the Legislative Auditor is pretty extensive.

Some of the more than 19,000 consultants have to go.

The I-49 bonds will be repaid using money that comes from the state's unclaimed property, but Kennedy says people can still claim all of their unclaimed money.

Kennedy estimates 97,000 jobs will be created.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state's new debt collection office won't be trying to recover dollars from two dozen non-governmental organizations that received tax money from lawmakers and didn't file financial reports with the state.

Louisianians are owed more than $582 million in unclaimed property money, so the Department of Treasury will publish the names of those owed in newspapers across the state through Dec. 10.

The instability of Puerto Rico's economy, coupled with a credit rating one step above "junk," makes investing in the island a shaky proposition

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Treasurer John Kennedy is referring 19 non-governmental organizations that received tax money from lawmakers to the state's new debt collection office because they didn't file required financial reports with the state.

Kennedy says anyone contacting you saying they can get you the information you need to claim your money for a fee, should be ignored

'I believe in the possibility of progress'. What the heck does that mean?

Treasurer John Kennedy is planning to give the state's new debt recovery office its first delinquent accounts for collection.

The Governor would eliminate about half the tax exemptions for the oil and gas industry.

Nearly a week after he called La. Gov. Bobby Jindal's tax swap proposal "interesting and complicated" on "Mornings with Ken and Bernie," La. State Treasurer John Kennedy is calling on the governor to put it to a statewide vote instead of just being decided in the state legislature.

The Governor would eliminate about half the tax exemptions for the oil and gas industry.