Sep 25, 2014 | News
The median income of East Baton Rouge Parish residents went up in 2013 from 2012, but a growing number of residents — about one in five — remained in poverty, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. East Baton Rouge Parish residents’...
Sep 25, 2014 | News
In the coming months, food stamp work requirements suspended during the Great Recession will be reinstated in at least 17 states, jeopardizing benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans. In those states, work requirements will be back in place for able-bodied...
Sep 25, 2014 | News
The national poverty rate declined to 14.5 in 2013 from 15 percent in 2012, the first time it’s fallen since 2006. But the picture is far gloomier in the South, which at 16.1 percent, had the highest rate of all four regions of the country. The southern poverty...
