About one in five Louisianians live in poverty. Louisiana women in particular face bleak circumstances on nearly every front from poverty to life expectancy to education, according to a study ...

Women in the U.S. are 10 or more times ... some of the worst statistics come out of the South - in places like Louisiana, where deep pockets of poverty, health care deserts and racial biases ...

Forced pregnancy in young girls is not only a health risk—it is a multi-dimensional human rights issue. With the Louisiana ...

Louisiana women face bleak circumstances on nearly every front from poverty to life expectancy to education, according to a new study released Monday. The WalletHub study ranked Louisiana 50th ...

Louisiana's poorest workers will have to go at least another year without a pay raise after lawmakers rejected Democratic New Orleans Sen. Gary Carter's effort to have his minimum wage bill heard ...

Wade in late June, a number of states across the country have moved to outlaw abortion, and in Louisiana, women in poverty will bear the worst burdens of the newly reinstated ban. These women are ...

“I wanna be able to say I did stuff,” says Autumn at the outset of the film in 2021, as she fantasizes about a future life far beyond the confines of Ruston, Louisiana. Her drab hometown — a ...

The federal immigration center in Winnfield, Louisiana, where officials are sending migrants due to be deported, is an ...

The flighty mindset of hyper-online living proves an uneasy solution to the rough gravity check of small-town poverty in ... hard-up Louisiana women getting by on their wits, wiles and heavily ...