Dec 22, 2014 | News
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...
Oct 18, 2014 | News
Sep 26, 2014 | News
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...
Sep 26, 2014 | News
Income levels and poverty rates were not statistically different for most states from 2012 to 2013, according to statistics released today from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the nation’s most comprehensive data source on American households. The...
Sep 26, 2014 | News
Just released U.S. Census Bureau data reveal 45.3 million people were poor in America in 2013. One in three of those who are poor is a child. Children remain our poorest age group and children of color and those under five are the poorest. More than one in five...
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...
