Louisiana

Read JSRI’s 2009 profile of poverty and inequality in the State of Louisiana »

A sample of the profile follows:

Who are Louisiana’s Poor?

• 270,794 are children (24.7% of kids)
• 69,185 are elders (13.5% of seniors)
• 404,239 are adults 18-64 (15.1 % of adults)
• 353,716 are in female-headed families (37.7% of such families)

Looked at another way:

• 307,794 males are poor (14.9 % males)
• 436,424 females are poor (19.7 % of females)
• 298,769 whites are poor (10.8 % of whites)
• 413,097 blacks are poor (30.6 % of blacks)
• 30,469 Hispanics are poor (21.1% of Hispanics)
• 18,476 immigrants are poor (14.2 % of foreign-born)

Ms. Mary Baudouin is the lead JSRI liaison to Louisiana groups, assisted by other staff as appropriate.

Particular articles of note are:

• Immigration Reform in Retrospect: Lessons Learned, Lives Changed--Weishar [JustSouth Quarterly, Spring 2013]
• Taxing the Poor: The Regressive Nature of State-Local Tax Systems--Kammer [JustSouth Quarterly, Spring 2013]
• Execution Halted: Time to End the Death Penalty--Mikulich [JustSouth E-newsletter, March 2013]
• Ash Wednesday Execution: Executing Life and Human Dignity--Mikulich [JustSouth E-newsletter--January 2013]
• Louisiana's Historic Opportunity to End the Death Penalty and Affirm Life--Mikulich [JustSouth Quarterly--Fall 2011]
• Testimony of Dr. Susan Weishar on HB342 in the Louisiana House on enforcement of E-Verify [May 10, 2011].
• Latino Immigration in New Orleans--Vásquez [JustSouth Quarterly, Spring 2010]
• Where Y'at, Fair Housing?—Mikulich [JustSouth Quarterly, Winter 2009]
• The death penalty in Dixie--The enduring legacy of the Confederate flag and racism—Mikulich [JustSouth E-Newsletter, February 2011]
• The Jury is Still Out: Criminal chaos or community justice in Orleans Parish—Mikulich [JustSouth E-Newsletter, November 2010]
• Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Welcoming Community? (2010 Conference)
• Louisiana Incarceration Rate Highest among 50 states [JustSouth E-Newsletter, May 2009]

Related organizations:

•  Catholic Charities of New Orleans
• Catholic Charities of Baton Rouge
• Catholic Charities of Houma-Thibodaux
• Catholic Social Services-Lafayette
• Catholic Charities of Alexandria
• Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana 
• Louisiana Budget Project
• Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Louisiana House of Representatives
• Louisiana Interchurch Conference
• The Louisiana Justice Institute 
• Louisiana Legislature Log
• Louisiana.gov
• PAR-Public Affairs Research Council
• Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc.
• Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

 

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