Josh Bivins
May 24, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence visits Baton Rouge on Wednesday - his third visit to the Pelican State in the past year.
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$190 billion- Proposed budget cut, over 10 years, to the federal SNAP program that provides food assistance to low-income families. The plan would shift costs to states, low-income families, temporarily unemployed adults and the elderly. (Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)February 9, 2017
The share of Louisianans without health insurance dropped from 21.7 percent in 2013 to 12.5 percent in 2016.