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Officials with the City of New Orleans and local organizations broke ground on an improvement project for the George Washington Carver Playground in Uptown New Orleans, on Tuesday, Oct. 3.
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It can be a young girl’s worst nightmare having their first period while at school among classmates and not having the products they need.
Women and families in Louisiana will no longer pay sales tax for select hygiene products. By iStock Story at a glance Louisiana’s state legislature exempts women and families from paying the 4.45 percent sales tax on hygienic products. The tax break begins in July 2022. Women have long paid more for standard goods, a phenomenon called the Pink Tax. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) signed a bill into law on Monday that guarantees Louisiana women and families do not have to pay sales tax on diapers, tampons, and other feminine hygiene products. T...
Lawmakers visit LSU to discuss sexual violence and ways to ensure student safety LSU campus (Source: WAFB) By Breanne Bizette | May 1, 2021 at 7:03 PM CDT - Updated May 1 at 7:03 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A few weeks into the session, lawmakers are still zeroing in to LSUâs failures to report sexual assault. âThe questions becomes when something happens, that is not right, how do we handle it? How do we fix it on the front end and when they are absolutely needing to do the investigation properly,â says State Representative C. Denise Marcelle. Students on campus say...