Why Isn’t The Media Interested? Obliteration of Missouri Medicaid Continues March 2024 Missouri Benefit Report Issued In the past year Missouri has shed 144,592 MO HealthNet/Medicaid patients. That includes… A 19.2% drop in Custodial Parents A 15.6% drop in Read More …
Category: Food Security
Money For Poor People
“Change in welfare rules could cost state $90M” The incredibly large – and misleading – headline dominating today’s St. Louis Post Dispatch screamed. The article noted that Missouri may be forced to slash grants to a variety of non-profits because of a change in Read More …
HHS Poverty Guidelines for 2024
The bureaucrats have spoken: the Poverty Guidelines for 2024 have been published in the Federal Register. 2024 Federal Poverty Guidelines They may be used by the State of Missouri and all others immediately…of course, here in the Show Me State they won’t go Read More …
Missouri Benefit Program Numbers For July 2023 Released
Mixed Bag But Still Trending Down Up and down, but generally down… The Missouri Department of Social Services has released the Monthly Management Report for July 2023 for the Family Support Division and the Missouri HealthNet Division. [ www.dss.mo/re ] Alas, no surprises. The number of Missourians getting Temporary Assistance climbed by Read More …
Missouri’s Children
What does Mike Parson – and his administration – have against kids? Oh, I know he likes to give out that ‘grandpa vibe’ at the State Fair. And, I suspect Parson happily spoils his six grandkids. The record with other Read More …
Understanding Missouri, Again
A friend from a very, very major metropolitan area up east texted me: did Missouri really just pass a law taking the sales tax off diapers and guns??? Of course not, I replied. That took two laws. Did Democrats vote Read More …