Coronavirus in Louisiana

Giveaways created a poverty sinkhole. Then the virus hit.

Property tax giveaways to oil companies and entrenched poverty around Louisiana refineries help tell the story of race and disease in an American energy hub at a time when the coronavirus is surging across the South. The virus’s effect on oil-rich Louisiana is the story of race, poverty and disease. In Shreveport, where some of…

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