A fifth of Louisiana's children live in poverty, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. That could jump to a third.

This program plays a critical role in reducing poverty, improving health and economic outcomes, supporting people who are ...

Census Bureau figures showed the state's Supplemental Poverty Measure stood at 17.7% in 2024. That's about 7 million residents in California lacking resources to meet basic needs, researchers said.

Louisiana’s child poverty rate over the past three years leads the nation, according to a new study that attributes the trend ...

Louisiana updated its income limits for Medicaid programs, effective March 2025. Here are the new income limits for each ...

The state has vowed to step in and provide food assistance for many who face a cut-off in federal SNAP aid. But there is ...

California is staggeringly wealthy; home to major agricultural businesses and influential global tech companies, it boasts an economy larger than many nations. But the state also struggles with a ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom often boasts that California, if it were a country, would have the world’s fourth-largest economy. But despite its wealth, the state has also seen a sharp increase in poverty since ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With a female majority for the first time in history, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is pushing for a new initiative to help local women living in poverty. "There ...

At a New Orleans senior center, the phone rings about 30 times a day with calls about Medicare, the federal health program ...

Representatives from UNESCO will make site visits this summer to Poverty Point, an archeological site in northeast Louisiana where mammoth earthen mounds were erected some 3,000 years ago. Poverty ...

It had been previously thought that the Poverty Point earthworks in northeastern Louisiana were inhabited some 3,500 years ...