Louisiana’s child poverty rate over the past three years leads the nation, according to a new study that attributes the trend to rising costs and expiring public assistance programs. The state also ...
Children who qualify for free or reduced-price meals at school are eligible for food assistance over the summer break, state officials announced Monday. The Louisiana Department of Children and Family ...
California is staggeringly wealthy; home to major agricultural businesses and influential global tech companies, it boasts an economy larger than many nations. But the state also struggles with a ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom often boasts that California, if it were a country, would have the world’s fourth-largest economy. But despite its wealth, the state has also seen a sharp increase in poverty since ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A new report from WalletHub ranks Louisiana as the worst state in the country for at-risk youth in 2025. WalletHub compared all 50 states and Washington, D.C., ...
As many people struggle in Northeast Louisiana to make ends meet, there exists the phenomenon of the shrinking middle class across the U.S. and especially in NELA. Reports of increasing poverty and ...
It's time for a new direction in public policy, one that assists families in crisis work their way from poverty to the American dream of peace and prosperity. Decades of failed policy that discourages ...
Map of child poverty concentrations measured over 2022-2024. Population Reference Bureau analysis of U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2023 to 2025 Annual Social and Economic Supplements.
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