Well, in Washington many of the majority party are talking of turning Food Stamps and Medicaid into block grants – as happened to Temporary Assistance a few years back. The claim is that block grants offers states flexibility do Read More …
Category: Issues
Community Issues
Moving Past the Holidays
The morning before Christmas Eve I received an e-mail subjected, Spend Christmas With Your True Family. It came, of course, from a bar. This morning I awoke to hear the trash truck leaving my subdivision, normally not an issue except Read More …
Fighting for Justice in a Post-Fact America
With the battle – well, more like a massacre – of worker rights coming soon to Missouri I updated my files on Median Household Income. I planned on showing, using census data, that new Right To Work states such as Read More …
‘Faithless electors’ explain their last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump
With the body poised to confirm Donald Trump as the next US president on Monday, a handful of ‘faithless electors’ explain why they’re putting up a fight
The Rest of the Story…about Medicare & Medicaid
There is a real and imminent threat to destroy Medicare and Medicaid as it presently exists. House Speaker Paul Ryan has said that he would pass legislation in early 2017 that would end Medicare’s guaranteed health care benefits. President-Elect Trump Read More …
Call Congress about repeal of the ACA!
The Missouri Budget Project has received word from their national partner that Congress and Senators are not hearing from folks in Missouri regarding the rush by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Tell our Senators Blunt & McCaskill there Read More …