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Podcast: It's Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch
Episode: Power to the People and Their Kids
Description: Louisiana faces so many challenges. One in five residents lives below the federal poverty level and nearly half the population is considered working poor. Our health outcomes are among the worst in the nation and so are our schools. How do we change policies to help everybody in the state? And what will it take to turn our schools around? Ashley Shelton has answers to these questions. Ashley is founder, president and CEO of the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, a statewide 501(c)3 organization in Louisiana that uses a broad-based strategy of community organizing, issue advocacy, an...