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Sixty-eight percent of Louisiana residents believe land loss will greatly impact those living on the coast, according to a new poll released earlier this month. Fifty percent of residents felt that they personallywould be greatly or moderately affected by coastal land loss.
Louisiana’s Medicaid program provides health care coverage to nearly 2 million people, 42% of thepopulation, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. The percentage of state population enrolled in Medicaid increased about 5% from early 2020 to July 2021.
Louisiana’s unemployment rate was 4.3% in February 2022, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That is the lowest reported figure since June 2019.
Louisiana faces a two-pronged problem in maintaining adequate levels of teachers in its K-12 publicschools, with more than one in 10 teachers leaving the classroom each year while the pipeline of newteachers also is significantly decreasing.
Undergraduate enrollment at Louisiana public colleges fell 2.6% for fall 2021, according to the Board of Regents. The Louisiana State University and Southern University systems both increased nearly 2% inundergraduate enrollment. But the University of Louisiana System had a 5.7% decrease, and theLouisiana Community and Technical College System had a 2% drop.