Letters to Editor
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, as it does every year around this time, recently delivered some bad news about Louisiana’s children. According to its Kids Count Data Book, Louisiana ranks 48th in the country for child well-being. Louisiana has never ranked higher than 46th in the 31-year history of this project. … Read more...
As spring turns to summer in Louisiana, hundreds of thousands children lose access to nutritious school meals. This often leads to hardship as parents make hard choices about which bills to skip so their kids can eat.… Read more...
The Earned Income Tax Credit helped 493,000 Louisiana households make ends meet in 2020. The working families that claimed the credit — roughly 1 in every 3 tax filers in the state — received $1.4 billion, an average of $2,873 per household.… Read more...