When you consider 1.6 million Louisiana residents, or a third of the state population, are Medicaid recipients, it’s little wonder why the program is budgeted to grow by $258.4 million per year under the change.

Nearly half (46%) of U.S. farmers believe we are on the brink of a farm crisis, according to survey released by the National Corn Growers Association. And 65% are more concerned now about their farm financials than a year ago.

The President says if legal challenges persist against national guard deployments, under certain conditions he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, “if it was necessary.”

Rep. Cleo Fields, D-6th Dist., bought a large amount of Oracle stocks just days before President Trump announced the technology giant would play a leading role in TikTok's pending U.S. spinoff from a Chinese Company.

Dr. Loren Scott is forecasting nearly 75,000 job gains in the next two years in Louisiana, driven largely by an industrial construction boom, surpassing two million jobs overall statewide.

Arkansas education leaders say under the new system, even families living at or just above the poverty line will face co-pays estimated at a hundred dollars per week per child. Officials fear that for many households with more than one child this cost quickly becomes unsustainable.

Veteran call centers, including the Veterans Crisis Line, will continue to operate, as will suicide prevention programs and homelessness services. Texas is home to roughly a million and a half veterans. For a complete listing of VA Contingency Planning click here.

Bright colors and big instruments came to the Red River Revel with SQUONK, the Avant Garde rock group from Pittsburgh.

Changes include reimbursing providers at the market rate for the cost of child care, adjusting the sliding scale copay based on family income, and removing incentives for higher quality care. Critics fear some providers may close or suffer hardships.

Although teachers typically receive better benefits than other professionals, researchers found that advantage wasn’t enough to offset the wage gap, not even by half.