Community Issues
February 2022 Missouri Benefit Report Issued Quick question: if you lacked health insurance would you turn down free coverage? Well, according to the Missouri Department of Social Services most adults newly eligible for Medicaid haven’t applied – officially. Barely one Read More …
Since the end of January a spiteful cadre of Republican state senators, the Conservative Caucus, has delayed consideration of a new Congressional map for Missouri because it didn’t give them what they wanted – a high probability of seven Republican Read More …
West County Democrats hosted Tony Messenger, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author. He discussed the criminalization of the poor through a punitive system of fines and fees for prison time. For those who can’t afford court imposed bonds and Read More …
Getting old takes a lot of effort. Remember, it also puts a target on your back. Charities and pseudo-charities want your money. And, the pharmaceutical industry will just plain take all they can get.
Tony Messenger is the metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2019, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his series of columns on debtors’ prisons in MO. In 2016, Messenger was awarded a Missouri Honor Medal, the highest award bestowed by the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.
…the Department of Social Services has a sordid history of ignoring the needs of those they are charged with helping. They know their actions create hardship and deprive struggling families of aid they are eligible and entitled to receive. Still, it takes a federal lawsuit to try and force improvement.