Reports
May 14, 2019
Every worker in Louisiana can face life events that must take priority over work, be it a traumatic event such as illness or a happy event like a birth or adoption. But the United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without paid leave policies that allow workers to weather the economic hardship of missing work.
February 13, 2019
BATON ROUGE – Public school teachers and support workers in Louisiana are long overdue for a pay raise. A decade of financial stagnation means the average teacher would need to earn an extra $4,004 to have the same buying power as their salary did in 2008.… Read more...
November 5, 2018
Louisiana public schools have lost out on billions of dollars over the past decade since state policymakers stopped providing annual cost-of-living increases to local school districts. That has made it harder for districts to keep up with rising costs, and widened the funding gap between rich school districts and poor ones.
April 9, 2018
Louisiana workers are long overdue for a pay raise. Although the state's unemployment rate is at its lowest rate in a decade, far too many workers are not earning enough to make ends meet.