child poverty rate
December 13, 2017
The health care received by 1.5 million Louisianans continues to hang in the balance as Gov. John Bel Edwards and Rep. Cameron Henry disagree on small details in the contracts of private companies that manage 90 percent of Louisiana's Medicaid program.
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28.3 - Percent of children in Louisiana living in poverty. (Source: United Health Foundation)October 6, 2017
The federal consumer watchdog agency finalized long-awaited rules Thursday aimed at reining in predatory payday lenders that provide short-term, high-interest loans to the financially vulnerable.
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Number of the Day 9.5 million: Number of additional children who would be living in poverty if the poverty rate had remained unchanged since 1967. (Source: CBPP)September 14, 2017
The poverty rate in Louisiana for adults and children remained unacceptably high in 2016 even as other states saw significant improvements. New U.S. Census data released Thursday also show that Louisiana continues to have one of the highest rates of income inequality in the United States.