Fighting for poor and working class Louisianans through solutions-driven public policy (aka @LAProgress, but we tweet here). https://teapawt.org/t.co/pSqf5TVo8u
Louisiana, USA
Joined June 2013
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Disclaimer: Poll paid for by Jamie Davis. It shows him tied with Julia Letlow in Louisiana Senate race at 45. Letlow has big advantage in name recognition. Most political pros still think she will win. I have asked Letlow campaign to provide me with their latest numbers. I’ll tweet if they do #lalege #lagov nola.com/news/politics/trump…
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Eligible Entergy Louisiana customers can apply for a one-time $100 bill credit. The credit is issued through local United Way chapters throughout the state.
louisianaradionetwork.com/20…
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LOUISIANA TURNOUT SPIKE (DAY 6 UPDATE)
With Gret Stet EVing, I've almost always seen black turnout spike both on Saturday and (if a Tues election) the last 2 EV days of Monday and Tuesday. In 2022, black turnout was abysmal and Sen. John Kennedy easily won in the primary.
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A class action lawsuit was filed today in Louisiana against sports betting companies, including FanDuel and DraftKings, alleging their apps are intentionally designed and marketed to induce and exploit addictive behavior.
wgno.com/news/class-action-s…
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A bartender traveling to New Orleans for tales of the cocktails was arrested by ICE at MSY and deported to a country she's never been to.
@rjamesfinn on how Louisiana has become the epicenter of ICE's deportations to countries people have no ties to nola.com/news/courts/alexand…
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folks talk about New Orleans as if it's literally On The Coast but
A) it's not
B) if fuller federal funding resumes we can fix the internal water & flooding systems tightly
C) the levees have held since 05
D) a lot of coastal restoration has been successful + we can afford more
what a new mayor can do >
New Orleanians feel increasingly optimistic about life in their city.
Nearly a third of respondents to an LSU New Orleans Quality of Life Survey released Mondaysaid they believe Orleans Parish has become a better place to live over the last five years — up from 17% in 2024. More than half of respondents say the city will become a better place to live in the next five years, up from 41% in 2024.
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"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
ourfinancialsecurity.org/res…
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What are Americans’ biggest financial worries?
37% say they worry every day or almost every day about being able to save for retirement.
About a third worry daily or almost daily about the cost of healthcare and the amount of debt they have.
#PersonalFinance #MoneyMatters
ALT Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say they worry daily or almost daily about being able to save for retirement
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BREAKING: The top 0.1% of Americans now hold more than six times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of the country.
The top 0.1% control about $28 trillion, roughly 15% of all U.S. wealth.
The bottom 50% hold about 2.5%.
Louisiana Progress retweeted
Just 9% of voters have already effectively elected nearly 90% of the U.S. House before November.
Because safe, gerrymandered districts make the November election a formality, races are decided in primaries where less than 10% of voters turn out.
Worse: many House members didn't face a single primary opponent in their safe seats.
This is the Primary Problem. Learn more: uniteamerica.org/primary-pro…
#ElectionReform #Democracy #PrimaryProblem #UniteAmerica
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New from @NewYorkFed: Trump's 2025-26 tariffs contributed 2.9 percentage points to US goods price inflation, via higher prices for imports AND domestic goods.
Without the tariffs, "goods prices would have fallen slightly." 😯
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The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says that AI is already driving *up* healthcare costs, as hospitals use the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. bcbs.com/about-us/associatio…
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HOURS REQUIRED TO ESCAPE POVERTY ON MINIMUM WAGE:
1. JAPAN - 11 Hours
2. UNITED KINGDOM - 23 Hours
3. FRANCE - 26 Hours
4. NEW ZEALAND - 29 Hours
5. PORTUGAL - 31 Hours
6. AUSTRALIA - 32 Hours
7. BELGIUM - 32 Hours
8. SPAIN - 32 Hours
9. IRELAND - 33 Hours
10. GERMANY - 37 Hours
11. LUXEMBOURG - 44 Hours
12. CANADA - 44 Hours
13. UNITED STATES- 90 Hours
YES, 90 HOURS. ONE PERSON ON FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE ($7.25/HR) WOULD NEED TO WORK 90 HOURS A WEEK TO ESCAPE POVERTY.
Louisiana Progress retweeted
🚨Today @SenWarren, @RonWyden, @ValHoyle, @SuhasforVA, @AOC, and @SenJeffMerkley introduced the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act backed by all of CPCC's physician groups to ban the corporate practice of medicine, including by PE and MSOs: perma.cc/B6VB-PRB8
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Net-Favorables of:
Labor Unions: +25%
Democratic Party: -11%
Republican Party: -17%
AI Tech: -23%
Donald Trump: -24%
Democratic Socialists of America: -25%
MAGA Movement: -28%
Beacon/Shaw / Sept 14, 2026
Louisiana Progress retweeted
Congress has worked so few hours this year that lawmakers wouldn't even meet the Medicaid work requirements they passed.
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I don't think I have ever seen a newspaper publish an editorial opinion defending the very practice they are being sued for in class action litigation?
It doesn't even bear mention! Fascinating!
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1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
Louisiana Progress retweeted
James Talarico: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Your boss at work, he cares about politics. Your landlord, he cares about politics. Your insurance company cares about politics. Until you care about politics, they’re gonna keep using the political system to screw you over”
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"Early childhood educators in New Orleans earn just $13.28 per hour on average, according to the report, which cited data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics"
