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New Orleans
has been designated a global “Creative City of Music” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). New Orleans is just the 10th U.S. city to join UNESCO’s Creative Cities network, which includes 350 cities around the world, and New Orleans and Kansas City are the only U.S. cities to have the music designation. The designation follows a long application process spearheaded by New Orleans & Co.
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New Orleans’ Medical Debt Relief Initiative
has erased more than $150.5 million in unpaid medical debt for 123,436 people in Orleans Parish since the program began in 2023. The New Orleans Health Department, city council and LCMC Health worked with the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt to help pay off the medical debt of overburdened and low-income locals.
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Loyola University New Orleans…