8/5/2026: 82,064 Louisiana children lose food benefits due to LDH procedures. Louisiana’s SNAP numbers drop, but not due to work requirements or citizenship: State data overwhelmingly point to ‘procedural reasons’ for decline in food aid recipients, Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator “A substantial portion of those who’ve lost SNAP benefits in Louisiana are children. State data from July 2025 through June…
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by Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator October 22, 2025 Louisiana’s child poverty rate over the past three years leads the nation, according to a new study that attributes the trend to rising costs and expiring public assistance programs. The state also had the largest increase in child poverty rate over the same period of time. The report from the Annie E.…
I got side-tracked on the Louisiana Board of Ethics website recently. The site is at: http://ethics.la.gov Each year I visit the Board of Ethics website and take an online course in Ethics. This time, though, I explored the site a bit and became intrigued by its robust campaign finance section. With just a few quick searches using the Board of…
Good evening, Friends! I attended the 2nd National Building Bridges Initiative this week so I missed some of the daily child welfare news I follow. This morning, while catching up on what I missed, I was excited to see this headline in The Atlantic: “America’s Child-Poverty Rate Has Hit a Record Low“! “Yes!”, rang out in my head! Reducing child…
This evening I read Louisiana’s plan to reduce child poverty and I am still scratching my head. What prevents child well-being initiatives from gaining traction in Louisiana? I ask because I’ve just read the Child Poverty Prevention Council’s 2009 Implementation Plan(1) prepared by the Child Poverty Prevention Council for Louisiana. The plan’s Executive Summary begins, “In the summer of 2008,…
Two out of every five children in Louisiana lives in poverty. Two articles in today’s news draw contrast to a dangerous disconnect in our state. One would reasonably expect that having a healthy business environment should translate into good things for children. However, these two news reports indicate this is not happening. The first article reports Louisiana’s child poverty rate…