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The program would provide $40 in food benefits for each month an eligible child is on summer break, loaded onto a card that can be used like a debit card to purchase groceries. Missouri's decision is nonbinding, and the state now has until Feb. 15 to submit a detailed plan to the federal government.
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U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis County, requested the U.S. Government Accountability Office evaluate the cleanup of the St. Louis County site contaminated by radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project.
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In the years following the Civil War, a plan to move the nation's capital to St. Louis won significant support. Journalist Livia Gershon discussed her new piece in Smithsonian Magazine on St. Louis on the Air.
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 15, 2013 - The deadlock in Washington, D.C., is the product of numerous factors. There is the…
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Hundreds of thousands of government employees went on furlough today, as the federal government began a partial shutdown. Thousands of those employees…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 4, 2013 - Politics changes less than we might think. Similar patterns reappear in U.S.…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 27, 2013 - Sequestration is a draconian action designed to force federal budget cutting in the…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 12, 2013 - The sequestration of federal government expenditures is in place. Just how will the…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 26, 2011 - The theme that the United States is an exceptional nation has reverberated in our…
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Missouri Congressman Russ Carnahan says the stalemate in Washington over the budget has more to do with ideology than numbers.A government shutdown will…