Census snapshot: More than half of state’s households see income losses

As of May 12, about 1.9 million Louisiana residents—or 55.7% of adults statewide responding to a recent U.S. Census Bureau survey—were living in households where someone experienced a loss in employment income. That’s up from the roughly 1.7 million Louisianans, or 50.9% of the state’s respondents, whose households reported losses in employment income the week