Just as in Ray Bradbury’s bleak future where firemen start fires, today the primary duty of staff at the Department of Social Services is to deny help to the needy.
Missouri’s Firemen
Category: Food Security
A Green New Deal
The greatest achievements of our country have always started with an aspiration.
Missouri Is Pro-Hunger
At the grocery store check-out lane I placed a tray with a dozen cans of beef ravioli on the belt. The young man bagging my purchases said, “You must really like ravioli.” Before I could reply the checker replied, “He Read More …
Year Ends With A Thud For Struggling Families
State officials claim the steep drop in the food stamp, Medicaid and Temporary Assistance rolls demonstrate a surging economy: families no longer need help because they’re doing so much better.
More Food Stamp Follies
… even if the Trump Down ends in a few days, 38 million Americans (including 700,000 Missourians) won’t get their next food help for six weeks!
To Keep Hunger At Bay
Hunger exists. It’s an irrefutable fact. Miller lays out the numbers: In Missouri, 826,000 people—14% of the state’s population—live below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL); in St. Louis County 90,000 people—nine percent of the area’s population—live below the FPL.