La. among US leaders in ‘poverty area’ declines between 2000 and 2010, report says

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    The share of Louisiana's population living in "poverty areas"—that is, those residing in a U.S. Census tract with an overall poverty rate exceeding 20%—declined by 3.6 percentage points be…


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