T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Jan Duggar # 4700.0010

IDENTIFICATION: Economist at Louisiana planning office and LSU

INTERVIEWER: Jim Harris

PROJECT: W.J.B.O. "Topic Today"

DATE: August 1975 FOCUS DATES: 1975

ABSTRACT:

Tape 11A:

Index of productivity of labor as economic indicator; effect on United States and Louisiana of deregulating oil; importance of national energy policy; consumer attitudes and activities (boycotting); Louisiana employment situation; Mississippi and Arkansas's efforts to attract business; international food market; interconnectedness of international economies; streamlining federal government; New Orleans asking federal and state governments for help; growth of parishes around New Orleans.

TAPES: 11A TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 45 minutes # PAGES INDEX: 3

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