September 2020 Missouri Benefit Report Issued Mediocre effort yields mediocre results. The Missouri Department of Social Services just issued the September 2020 Monthly Management Report for the Family Support Division and the MO HealthNet Division. They earn one point for Read More …
Category: Economic Fairness
Stop Hoping 2020 Won’t Get Worse…
Land O Lakes Extra Creamy Butter usually costs $5.99 a pound at friendly stores. Finding it on sale for the same price — $3.50 per pound – as plebian butter, I picked up three pounds: “You shouldn’t take that many,” Read More …
Outsourced Missouri
Want to make $40.00 an hour talking on the phone for the State of Missouri? Well, that’s possible…if you work for Maximus, a Virginia based firm specializing in “Helping government serve the people.” This pesky pandemic keeps beating the crap Read More …
Missouri Keeps Getting Poorer
2019 Median Income Data Released The extended warranty on my wife’s car aged out after Memorial Day, so, when the Check Engine light lit up I expected pain. The active rocker arm oil control valve (which we didn’t know we Read More …
The National Political Landscape – 2020
In August our guest speaker, Dr. Dave Robertson, Political Science Department at UMSL, suffered a medical emergency which caused us to cancel the August 10 meeting. He is recovering well and provided West County Democrats with a video of the presentation he would have made to the group during our meeting.
A Few More Missourians Received Help In July
The report finds that the number of struggling citizens helped by Temporary Assistance dropped by 2% from June while the number receiving food stamps increased by just over half a percent, and, Medicaid [MO HealthNet] added about 2% to its rolls.