PARAGON CASINO RESORT • MARKSVILLE, LOUISIANA • JANUARY 29-31, 2019 Join ACAP Louisiana at the 2019 Winter Conference. Special Conference Room Rate Available. You must reserve by 1/1/2019 Register...
Study of financial hardship Read the Updated 2017 Regional Report Read the updated 2017 Full Report United Way ALICE® Project ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. The United Way term represents the growing number of hardworking individuals and...
READ OR DOWNLOAD THE REPORT (68 PG PDF) The 2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book urges policymakers not to back away from targeted investments that help U.S. children become healthier, more likely to complete high school and better positioned to contribute to the nation’s...
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington When my older brother and I were in elementary school, the teacher assigned the class to bring a bug into class that was familiar in our neighborhood. My brother, who was probably seven years old at the time, immediately thought to bring a...
By The Times-Picayune Editorial Board The best hope for reducing poverty in Louisiana is to fully understand how bad things are and why. The people struggling to make ends meet across our state don’t only include those who are deemed poor by federal income...
Before I campaigned for State Representative, the main context I thought about homelessness in was a reflection of my past work for jail and prisons. Inmates being released from jail or prison need housing first and foremost because without a place to sleep the night...
Advocate Staff and Wire Report Louisiana added 21,800 nonfarm jobs over the past 12 months, while the state’s unemployment rate edged up for the seventh straight month in November to 6.5 percent as even more people sought work. “The sustained growth in Louisiana’s...
By Deborah Barfield Berry WASHINGTON – Addressing generational poverty will be the major focus of a congressional subcommittee Rep. Charles Boustany will head next Congress. “This is a huge issue in Louisiana,” said Boustany, R-Lafayette, who will be chairman of the...
Poorest are Children of Color and Under 6In 20 States more than 40 percent of Black Children are Poor In 35 States more than 30 percent of Hispanic Children are Poor In 21 States more than 25 percent of Children Under 6 are Poor In 19 States more than 10 percent of...
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