Half A Job… First surprise: the Department of Social Services posted the Family Support Division, MO HealthNet Division Monthly Management Report for March 2020 right when they should have! Second surprise: Family Support managed to field only half a response Read More …
Hello Again! At a time when food pantries and emergency food distributions are struggling to feed families, yesterday the USDA published information on emergency, pandemic food stamp eligibility. This was expected. (Though the actual details seem to be running a Read More …
Missouri has so emasculated its staff and structure to help families that they fail in good times. These are not good times.
After the 1918 flu pandemic it took years for life to return to normal. This go around, plan on a decade of pain.
The restaurant and hospitality industry evaporated this week. Other than grocers, retail is gone. Major manufacturers are closing the assembly lines. The result will be hundreds of thousands of formerly working and middle class families toppling into poverty. Missouri government can’t handle that.
No one would ever mistake Manhattan, Kansas, for Manhattan in New York City. But that is precisely what the federal government does.