Three of the four major candidates are expected to attend today’s gubernatorial forum hosted by the Baton Rouge Press Club. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat doesn’t think Senator David Vitter’s absence will hurt his chances of making the runoff. He says the fact that Vitter isn’t attending this debate won’t change how his supporters view him…

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He says Vitter has enough money to get his message out through TV commercials.

Latest U.S. Census data shows Louisiana had the third highest rate of poverty in the country for 2014 at just below 20 percent. Jan Moller, Director of the Louisiana Budget Project, says we have a lot of work to do to create an economy that works for everybody. He says there are policies out there that could easily help us move the needle…

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Almost 897-thousand Louisiana residents lived below the poverty line in 2014.

Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is making a campaign stop in Baton Rouge today. UL-Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says even though her poll numbers have drastically declined over the summer, he believes Clinton still has a good shot at the White House…

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Clinton is holding what is described as a “grassroots organizing event” this morning at the Louisiana Leadership Institute.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission says the number of people employed in mining and logging, and that includes the oil sector, is at its lowest level since December 2005. Executive director of the L-W-C Curt Eysink says you can blame the low price of oil…

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There are 46-thousand people employed in this sector of the state’s economy, a decline of 78-hundred over the last year.