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March 26, 2021 Melanie Richardson, right, co-founder and executive director of childcare education nonprofit TrainingGround, was one of more than 50 scholars and practitioners who developed grant proposals as part of Count the Costs Research Weekend, a workshop aimed at helping researchers quantify the effects of racial inequity in the U.S. Researchers from Tulane and other universities came together in March for a three-day workshop aimed at helping scholars quantify the effects of racial inequity in the United States. Hosted by the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneur...

EDITORIAL: A dollars-and-cents argument for John Bel Edwards' Medicaid expansion Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA) Mar. 13—We've backed Louisiana's Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act from the beginning, and the program's track record since Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards reversed Republican Bobby Jindal's rejection of the enhanced federal health coverage has only reinforced our support. Nearly 600,000 Louisianans are now enrolled in expanded Medicaid, according to the state's latest numbers, giving them access to preventive care, screenings to detect and manage health proble...