Missouri policy remains to punish struggling families at every opportunity, just as the state abuses its own workers with low pay and depreciating benefits.
September 2021 Missouri Benefit Report
Category: Economic Fairness
Professional Help Needed:
Disappointing August Missouri Benefit Numbers In August 2010 the average Missouri family receiving Temporary Assistance received $237.19. Adjust that for inflation , to this August and you get $297.22. Only the average TA family didn’t get $300 this August, no, Read More …
Lost Sales
Last week I searched the grocery store, without success, for a brand of pretzels I knew had just gone on sale. I asked the nice young man about the pretzels. “Those are on sale this week,” he replied. “We don’t Read More …
Better But Still Horrible
Well, a few more Missouri citizens received food stamps last month and even without Medicaid Expansion better than a million received state-provided health care.
What’s Wrong With Missouri?
Amid a series of emails with friends fighting hunger about the nation I got asked a question: “What’s wrong with Missouri?’ My friend dutifully follows news about Covid – and how Missouri seems immune to common sense. She read about Read More …
Twenty Years Without Change
Remember capitalism? Market a needed product at a fair price and treat your workers well enough that they remain loyal. That formula is so dead.