This week on Behind The Lens, 15,000 Louisianans have misplaced meals stamps resulting from reinstated federal work necessities. 1000’s extra will seemingly lose advantages beginning this fall, resulting from a brand new Louisiana regulation that bars state officers from doing what they’ve performed for practically 25 years – asking for waivers of federal work necessities in parishes with excessive unemployment.

The Higher Mississippi is seeing file water ranges leading to flooding once more up north, and might imply the tip of the menace from drought and the saltwater intrusion that had been threatening this a part of the state for a few years. 

Our friends this week are Lens reporters Nick Chrastil, Delaney Dryfoos and deputy editor Marta Jewson.

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