Dr. Michael Henderson, Director of the LSU Public Policy Research Lab this week on Bayou to Beltway. (Wed, 12:30 am KRVS 88.7 fm).
This week Bayou to Beltway welcomes Dr. Michael Henderson. Dr. Henderson shares the results of the most recent Louisiana survey with us. Is the state headed in the right direction? Are taxes too high or too law. What should the state do with the windfall from the CARES and American Rescue Plan Acts? Invest? Or Spend it? Does racial discrimination need to end to achieve equality? These and other questions are the topics as I discuss the Louisiana Survey results with Dr. Michael Henderson, Director of the LSU Public Policy Research Lab.
Blanco Public Policy Center at UL Lafayette examines economics of child care
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Early care and education is the focus of the most recent public policy brief from the Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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The Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette examines the economics of early care and education in its most recent public policy brief.
âBlanco Center Policy Briefsâ provide high-level summaries of issues relevant to policy makers and voters in Louisiana.
COVID vaccines present challenge for smaller pharmacies
Taking constant phone calls and entering names onto growing lists, deleting old names and re-arranging others after cancellations and no-shows, juggling a varying number of COVID-19 vaccines – this is what mom-and-pop pharmacies around the state have been doing along with their regular services.
“You might have to make a list of a thousand phone numbers, and a hundred of those have probably already gotten the vaccine,” said Jimmy Taylor, lead pharmacist at Don Chaucer’s Pharmacy in Hammond. “We’ve never done anything like this. You can’t just walk in and get a COVID vaccine like the flu. It’s a learning curve for all of us. If we have a heavy day, we have to bring in nurses to give the shots for me so I can keep running the pharmacy.”
BATON ROUGE An LSU survey shows that Louisiana residents disagree on the role that racial discrimination plays in our society, with 84% of Black residents believing more changes are needed to achieve racial equality.
Only 39% of whites agree. Twenty-six percent of whites think the country has made the necessary changes to achieve equal rights, and 30% of whites think that it has gone too far in making changes for the rights of Black people.
This study was conducted by researchers in the Public Policy Research Lab at the LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication. The researchers polled 781 adults throughout Louisiana to understand their views on race and class.
Louisiana Survey: White and Black Louisianans view discrimination differently
White and Black Louisianians view discrimination and racial progress very differently, according to the fourth of five reports from the 2021 Louisiana Survey.
The latest installment of the survey from the Public Policy Research Lab at LSU’s Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs asks residents about the extent of racial discrimination in six different situations: In hiring, pay and promotions at work; in stores and restaurants; when applying for a loan or mortgage; in dealing with the police; when voting in elections; and when seeking medical treatment.
A majority of the state’s residents (55%) believe Black people are treated less fairly than white people in dealing with the police. However, in the remaining five situations, most do not believe Black people are treated less fairly.