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With all eyes on sev­er­al mar­gin­al seats in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Barataria/San Juan—a seat the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) won by 1,060 votes in the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion—to get the views of con­stituents this time around.

When you vis­it this con­stituen­cy, there are busi­ness­es every­where but de­spite this, one is­sue res­i­dents say their con­stituen­cy faces is un­em­ploy­ment.

Speak­ing in San Juan, 44-year-old Em­ma Say­ers-Baird, who has lived in the com­mu­ni­ty her en­tire life, said, “Un­em­ploy­ment is a re­al is­sue.”