<p>On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced he would take Executive Action on immigration that includes several provisions, including a policy that will provide temporary relief from deportation and work authorization for approximately 3.9 million undocumented immigrants for up to three years. &nbsp;In his speech to the nation the President explained that although the U.S. Senate had passed a bi-partisan comprehensive immigration reform bill in June 2013, because the U.S. House of Representatives refused to even bring the bill up for a vote, he felt compelled to act to &ldquo;help make our immigration system more fair and more just.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>The parents of U.S. citizen children will be the main beneficiaries of this Executive Action. In a case-by-case review of their applications, parents must prove they have lived in the U.S. for five years, pass a stringent background check, come up to date on any back taxes, and pay a hefty fee to cover the costs of the program ($465/application).[1]&nbsp;</p>
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<p><a href="http://973thedawg.com/study-shows-more-than-half-of-louisiana-families-struggle-with-money/">Study Shows More Than Half Of Louisiana Families Struggle With Money&nbsp;</a></p>
<p><strong>97.3 Radio the Dawg, January 15, 2015</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/study-shows-most-louisian">Study shows most Louisiana families struggle financially&nbsp;</a></p>
<p><strong>NBC 33 TV News, January 14, 2015</strong></p>
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<p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.knoe.com/home/headlines/Study-finds-Louisiana-residents-are-not-making-enough-to-live-comfortably--288635831.html">Study finds Louisiana residents are not making enough to live comfortably&nbsp;</a></p>
<p><strong>KNOE, January 14, 2015</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://klfy.com/2015/01/14/cost-of-living-too-much-for-many-louisiana-families/">Cost of living too much for many Louisiana families&nbsp;</a></p>
<p><strong>KLFY News, January 14, 2015&nbsp;</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.katc.com/story/27852029/lafayette-metro-area-ranks-3rd-in-state-in-cost-of-living-study-reports"><span>Lafayette metro area ranks 3rd in state in cost of living, study reports</span></a></p>
<p class="layout__trailer--margin p-title entry-title type__font-size--xxl type__font-weight--bold"><strong>KATC, January 14, 2015</strong></p>
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<p class="layout__trailer--margin p-title entry-title type__font-size--xxl type__font-weight--bold"><a href="http://www.wwl.com/Study-finds-over-half-of-families-in-Louisiana-str/20712765">Study finds over half of families in Louisiana struggle to make ends meet</a></p>
<p class="layout__trailer--margin p-title entry-title type__font-size--xxl type__font-weight--bold"><strong>WWL, January 14, 2015</strong></p>
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<p class="layout__trailer--margin p-title entry-title type__font-size--xxl type__font-weight--bold"><a href="http://wwno.org/post/loyola-study-finds-families-struggling-meet-basic-needs">Loyola Study Finds Families Struggling To Meet Basic Needs</a></p>
<p class="layout__trailer--margin p-title entry-title type__font-size--xxl type__font-weight--bold"><strong>WWNO, January 14, 2015</strong></p>
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<p class="layout__trailer--margin p-title entry-title type__font-size--xxl type__font-weight--bold"><a href="http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/11329025-123/more-than-half-of-louisiana">More than half of Louisiana families can&rsquo;t meet basic costs, report says</a></p>
<p class="layout__trailer--margin p-title entry-title type__font-size--xxl type__font-weight--bold"><strong>The New Orleans Advocate, January 14, 2015</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.labudget.org/lbp/2015/01/wednesday-january-14-2015/">Louisiana families struggle for economic security</a></p>
<p><b>The Daily Dime, January 14, 2015</b></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2015/01/louisianas_families_struggle_f.html#incart_m-rpt-2">224,000 Louisiana families struggle for even &#39;modest but dignified&#39; lifestyle, Loyola study finds</a></p>
<p><strong>The Times- Picayune/NOLA.com, January 13, 2015</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wbrz.com/news/report-it-takes-more-than-55k-to-live-secure-in-br/">Report: It takes more than $55k to live securely in BR</a></p>
<p><strong>WBRZ, January 13, 2014&nbsp;</strong></p>
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<p>Recently, a representative of Archbishop&nbsp;<span>Gregory Aymond of New Orleans asked me&nbsp;</span><span>this question from the archbishop, &ldquo;How&nbsp;</span><span>much does it cost to live in New Orleans these&nbsp;</span><span>days?&rdquo; It was a question that had haunted me&nbsp;</span><span>as an employer in the years immediately after&nbsp;</span><span>Katrina as reports and rumors mixed together&nbsp;</span><span>about rising prices of food, housing, utilities,&nbsp;</span><span>and other basics. The census does not give us&nbsp;</span><span>this information, nor do other reports from&nbsp;</span>state, local, or federal governments, even in&nbsp;the traditional measures of &ldquo;official poverty.&rdquo;&nbsp;Yet the questions about cost of living in&nbsp;New Orleans and other cities persist, as do&nbsp;the realities of so many families coming to&nbsp;churches and social agencies across our state&nbsp;for food, utility assistance, and other financial&nbsp;help&mdash;especially near the end of the month&nbsp;when paychecks, social security, and other&nbsp;financial support have been exhausted.&nbsp;Thus the report that follows. Staffed&nbsp;by our new Economic Policy Specialist Al&iacute;&nbsp;R. Bustamante, assisted by our fellows and&nbsp;student researchers, and made possible by&nbsp;a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,&nbsp;the Jesuit Social Research Institute set out to&nbsp;study just what it costs typical families to live&nbsp;a modest but dignified life in Louisiana and&nbsp;its major cities. Put another way, what does&nbsp;&ldquo;economic security&rdquo; mean for families in our&nbsp;state? The question has critical implications&nbsp;and significant moral import for employers,&nbsp;policy-makers, and all of us concerned with&nbsp;the common good.</p>
<p><span>-Fred Kammer, S.J.</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/JSRI SPECIAL REPORT Too Much for Too Many.pdf"><span>FULL REPORT&gt;&gt;</span></a></p>
<p><a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/JSRI SPECIAL REPORT Too Much for Too Many Charts.pdf"><span>ADDITIONAL CHARTS&gt;&gt;</span></a></p>

<p>[The Washington Post, December 3, 2014]</p>
<p>By Niraj Chokshi</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s no big secret that the state prison system is over-taxed.</p>
<p>Prisons in 17 states are over capacity and, despite shrinking for a few years, it looks as if the prison population will return to its long-term trend toward growth, as we reported a few weeks ago:</p>
<p>Since the late 1970s, the state prison population essentially knew only one direction: up. But, in 2009, something changed. After all those years of growth, the prison population begin to shrink. And the trend held steady &mdash; well, until last year, when growth made a comeback. Now, it seems, it may be here to stay.</p>
<p>The state prison population is poised to grow 3 percent by 2018, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts review of 34 state and outside group projections. Were the forecast accurate, it would suggest the old trend &mdash; decades of growth &mdash; may be back. Overall, that group is projected to swell by about 26,000 reaching nearly 945,000 in size four years from now, according to the data Pew collected last month and published Tuesday.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities&rsquo;s Nick Kasprak, Michael Mitchell, and Rob Cady published the interactive map below that shows just how much the imprisonment rate has swelled in each state: there isn&rsquo;t a single one that hasn&rsquo;t seen substantial growth.</p>
<p>North Carolina saw its imprisonment rate per 100,000 residents grow the least: 66 percent from 1978 to 2013. North Dakota&rsquo;s grew the most, increasing nearly tenfold. Imprisonment rates more than tripled in 36 states.</p>
<p>Part of the reason behind North Dakota&rsquo;s huge growth is that it started at the very bottom among states in 1978 with an imprisonment rate of just 21 per 100,000 residents. In 2013, Louisiana&rsquo;s rate was largest, at 847 per 100,000 residents. In 44 states, the 2013 imprisonment rate was above the highest rate (234 per 100,000 residents in South Carolina) in 1978.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/12/03/the-four-decade-rise-in-state-imprisonment-in-one-animated-gif/">To view interactive GIF on Washington Post&#39;s website &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></p>

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Louisiana&#39;s $1 Billion Giveaway</h2>
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Giveaways cost the U.S. taxpayers $50 billion a year</h2>
<p>by Fred Kammer, S.J.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The New Orleans Advocate, in an eight-part report<a href="http://blogs.theadvocate.com/specialreports/2014/11/26/giving-away-louisiana/">[1]</a>, has highlighted the burgeoning practice of creating tax-breaks (&ldquo;tax incentives,&rdquo; &ldquo;tax loopholes,&rdquo; &ldquo;tax expenditures&rdquo;) that now cost Louisiana $1.08 billion dollars a year. &nbsp;Legislatures create these benefits purportedly to induce businesses to locate in a state or expand there. &nbsp;Two examples from The Advocate illustrate these incentives:</p>
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Every time the Robertson clan films another episode of &ldquo;Duck Dynasty,&rdquo; Louisiana is on the hook for nearly $330,000, at last count.</li>
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During the past three years, state taxpayers agreed to fork over nearly $700,000 to Wal-Mart to build new stores in two affluent suburbs.<a href="http://blogs.theadvocate.com/specialreports/2014/11/26/giving-away-louisiana/">[2]</a></li>
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<p>The report focuses on six programs which together have grown by an average of 17% a year over the past decade and their 2013 cost: film industry incentives whereby the state pays 30% of production costs of films made here ($251 million); refunds of property taxes businesses pay on inventory ($427 million); solar power tax credits to businesses and individuals ($61 million); tax exemptions for fracking wells ($240 million); the Enterprise Zone program ($70 million); and various property and sales tax benefits to lure &ldquo;megaprojects&rdquo; here (costing hundreds of millions).</p>
<p>In 2013 alone, these six programs totaled over $1 billion dollars in a state struggling to meet its budget and doing so by repeated cuts primarily in health care and education. &nbsp;Higher education spending has dropped from $1.13 billion in FY2009 to $535 million in FY2015. &nbsp;The difference often is made up in increased tuition for families.</p>
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<span class="maroon"><a href="http://forabettertexas.org/images/EO_2014_ACSPovertyIncome_Charts.pdf">MORE FROM THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY PRIORITIES &gt;&gt;</a></span></h2>

<p><img alt="" src="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/ferg4.jpg" /></p>

<p><span>by Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.</span></p>
<p>&ldquo;The criminal justice system is out of control,&rdquo;[1] proclaimed Pope Francis to the International Association of Penal Law on October 23, 2014.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Francis laments how societies have become overly punitive, thereby losing the capacity to practice the &ldquo;primacy of life and the dignity of the human person.&rdquo; &nbsp;</p>
<p>Sadly, Louisiana is a prime example of a criminal justice system out of control, as the state &ldquo;locks up more of its people than anywhere in the world.&rdquo;[2]</p>
<p>Newsmedia headlined the Pope&rsquo;s call for the abolition of the death penalty and his declaration that the &ldquo;life sentence was taken out of the Vatican&rsquo;s Criminal Code&rdquo; &nbsp;because a &ldquo;life sentence is just a death penalty in disguise.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Louisiana serves as exhibit #1 of applying the &ldquo;death penalty in disguise,&rdquo; as it incarcerates the highest percentage of inmates serving life sentences without the possibility of parole (LWOP), including some who never committed a violent crime. &nbsp;</p>
<p>As the Times-Picayune observes in an op-ed that underscores the Pope&rsquo;s message, Louisiana&rsquo;s &ldquo;wasteful approach denies any possibility of redemption&mdash;throwing away lives but also throwing away money. &nbsp;An offender who begins a life sentence at 20-something and lives to be 70 will end up costing the state $1 million.&rdquo;[3]</p>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">7:45</a></td>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">Liturgy &ndash; Kevin Burke, S.J., Celebrant</a></td>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">9:15</a></td>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">Reflection Time</a></td>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">Monday, November 17</a></h3>
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<p><a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">Day 3 of the IFTJ (Ignatian Family Advocacy Day) will kick-off with a public witness on Capitol Hill, followed by advocacy meetings with your Members of Congress! Please note that participants are responsible for booking their own meetings; ISN will provide support if needed.</a></p>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">9:00</a></td>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">Public Witness on Capitol Hill</a></td>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">10:00</a></td>
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<a href="http://ignatiansolidarity.net/iftj-live/">Advocacy Day</a></td>
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