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.
‘Mister nice guy’ Parson may smile a lot but children keep losing access to medical care, prison guards get denied representation and owed wages, and, illegal gambling machines conquer the state while the accidental governor flies above it all in somebody’s private jet.
Maggie Menefee, the Executive Director of ALIVE for the St. Louis Metro Area spoke to the West County Democrats about the rise of intimate partner violence. This abuse may be physical, sexual, psychological or financial and there are very limited Read More …
The new Trump rules – pushed by some Republicans then dropped during the debate over the Farm Bill – make it much harder for a state to get a waiver, even in times as bad as the Great Recession.
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