For more than 15 years, Café Hope has used the restaurant business to offer young people on the Westbank something larger than culinary training: a pathway into the workforce and toward greater independence. That work recently earned national recognition. The Gretna-based nonprofit was selected to receive a $10,000 grant from the Jacques Pépin Foundation as […]
College tuition keeps sprinting ahead of inflation while paychecks jog behind. If you live in Louisiana, you feel that gap every time you price out LSU or Tulane. The numbers sting, so let’s focus on what you can control—where you park the money that will one day bridge it. Louisiana’s START Saving Program is a […]
Plaintiffs seek relief from unconstitutional heat conditions and a ruling on the dignitary harm arising from forced labor and the legacy of slavery embedded in Angola’s Farm Line Incarcerated plaintiffs in VOTE v. LeBlanc have asked a federal district court to reconsider last month’s ruling, which found constitutional violations in Louisiana State Penitentiary’s (Angola) “Farm […]
Advocates say the ruling amounts to “a victory without a remedy” in a case challenging what they describe as slavery-like forced labor at Louisiana State Penitentiary. A federal court has declined to order permanent relief in a class-action lawsuit challenging the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s controversial “Farm Line,” leaving intact a prison labor system that incarcerated […]
Education debt says a lot about the kind of country we choose to be. And it says just as much about how we treat states like Louisiana. Under President Joe Biden, student loan debt has been treated as a national challenge that demands fairness and reform. His administration expanded loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment because […]
In Louisiana, health care is not an abstract policy debate. It is a kitchen-table reality that touches every family, every parish, and every community in our state. For the past several years, enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits have helped hundreds of thousands of Louisianans afford health coverage. These credits have allowed small business owners […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) has granted conditional CP2 LNG terminal approval for the construction of the CP2 LNG gas export terminal, a controversial project spearheaded by the fossil fuel company Venture Global. The proposed facility would be located in the already overburdened Cameron Parish, Louisiana, a coastal community on the Gulf of Mexico that […]
If your energy bill feels criminally high, that’s because it is. The Entergy New Orleans monopoly has inflated rates, manipulated regulators, and deceived the public—all while raking in billions. And when money alone wasn’t enough, they straight-up lied—hiring paid actors to fake public support for a gas plant that New Orleanians didn’t want. A Monopoly […]
Republicans love to talk about free speech until they are the ones being criticized. Governor Landry involvement in the suspension of an LSU law professor, the resignation of another under mounting pressure, and the removal of Davante Lewis from the Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) prove that conservative free speech advocacy is nothing more than […]
A legal battle has erupted in Louisiana politics and law as two teachers and a pastor have filed a lawsuit against state officials over a sweeping constitutional amendment set to appear on the March 29, 2025, ballot. The lawsuit alleges that the amendment, introduced during a special tax session in November 2024 and known as […]
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