Missouri has so emasculated its staff and structure to help families that they fail in good times. These are not good times.
Missouri Issues February 2020 Benefit Report
Category: Economic Fairness
The Quest For Pants
Well, today even simple transactions like buying a pair of pants have gotten complicated. What used to be local and easy now is obtuse and distant.
Legislative Report – April 10, 2020
Missouri has long lagged most other states in the operation of its benefit programs. As mentioned before, the state has moved from a county office model to Call Centers handling food stamps, Medicaid and most other programs. The Call Centers have been a monumental failure at handling everyday work flow. They now constitute an inescapable calamity struggling families must endure.
The Beginning Of The New
After the 1918 flu pandemic it took years for life to return to normal. This go around, plan on a decade of pain.
Bye-Bye Money
Working under the impression that Tax Day remained April 15, I spent a bit if time in early March accumulating paperwork and completing the ‘tax planner’ supplied by our CPA. Cursed with a good bit of obsessiveness, I even went Read More …
Meanwhile, In Missouri
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.