Louisiana House greenlights Gov. Jeff Landry’s tax cuts

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s GOP-dominated House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed individual and corporate…

USDA bans school lunch fees for low-income families

NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that students eligible for free or reduced…

National grantmakers bet this rural education program can scale

In 2010, Dreama Gentry met Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, a much-lauded nonprofit that…

Appeals judges rule against fund used to provide phone services for rural and low-income people

NEW ORLEANS — Calling it a “misbegotten tax,” a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled…