I snapped a picture at the grocery store yesterday: the brand of skim milk we’ buy cost $2.99 a gallon for the longest time. A while back it hit $3.74. Yesterday a special sign said it was “Priced Right” at Read More …
Goodbye Facebook
Category: Food Security
Lull Between Tornadoes
Missouri Issues April 2025 DSS Benefit Report The short version: SNAP (food stamps) and Temporary Assistance are almost exactly where they were a year ago. The number of citizens covered by Medicaid is down thanks to bureaucratic ineptitude. A few Read More …
Middle-Class Income?
I don’t expect you to remember all these numbers. Please understand that Republicans work for a rich people, not the rest of us.
2025 HHS Poverty Guidelines Issued
As happens about this time every year, the federal government has issued their poverty level charts. The 2025 Federal Poverty Guidelines have been published in the Federal Register and are available on Health and Human Services webpages. Two critical caveats… A very knowledgeable researcher made Read More …
The Oreo War
Look around the house for a journal, notebook, or even a thick pad of paper. Then, start making daily entries in your War Diary. Today Donald J. Trump begins his first war, The Oreo War. You see many things cross borders Read More …
A Short and Hard Life
On a bitter and icy day we said good-bye to our nephew Matt. He passed while attacking winter on his mom’s driveway. He was 51. In his youth he enjoyed life but had multiple issues with authority. As he aged Read More …