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Dollar General opens about three locations a day. Advocates against the rapid expansion released a four-step guide for keeping stores from opening.

Iowa’s top-producing egg industry still recovering, rippling consumers

As payments roll in, guaranteed income recipients reflect on their lives “If I didn’t have that money, then I know I’d be tons, tons more stressed now.”

Louisiana families that qualify for federally-funded cash assistance will receive twice as much money in 2022, officials said, marking the state’s first benefits increase in more than 20 years.

Updates to SNAP, TANF and the Child Tax Credit have helped families in the Gulf South, but not everyone has been able to access the improved benefits.

Southern ports report higher traffic, but problems on the ground keep them from being a true solution to the supply chain tangle.

Experts say trucking can lift women out of poverty, but barriers like lack of access to child care keep them out.

The vote on whether or not to unionize the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime chance for a big union win in the South.…

Karl Lengel hosted Wednesday's Louisiana Considered.WWNO's Shalina Chatlani discusses vaccine hesitancy among Black healthcare workers. Read her story.…

More than 7,000 oil and gas workers have lost their jobs in Louisiana as the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation and the world. With one of the highest…