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Baton Rouge voters will decide Saturday whether to fill a $21 million budget deficit by redirecting taxes from the public library and two other agencies.

National Nurses United has been negotiating new staff contracts with UMC administrators since March 2024. This is the fifth strike in just over a year.

Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sid Edwards said his team organized with about 15 restaurants in an attempt to make sure no one goes hungry during the government shutdown.

The constant back-and-forth with SNAP funds has left many worried that they won’t have enough food to eat. Now, various governmental and charitable organizations, like the East Baton Rouge Council on Aging, are stepping up to meet the need.

Louisiana is in the top four, costing more than $300 billion since 1980.

Undue Medical Debt partnered to pay off debts for more than 123,000 people across Orleans Parish. Now, the nonprofit warns that the issue could soon get worse.

Lawmakers passed legislation in the spring to move UNO from the Louisiana University System back to the LSU system, where it had been from its founding until 2013.

Louisiana is suspending its temporary assistance program that would provide November funds to most Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients in the state amid the ongoing government shutdown.

The practice is called community, citizen or participatory science, and it involves data collected from non-scientists that’s passed along to researchers who use their expertise to study and understand what they mean

Luisiana usará 150 millones de dólares en fondos del estado para crear un programa de asistencia temporal para financiar subsidios para algunos beneficiarios del Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, o SNAP) en noviembre durante el cierre del gobierno federal.