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Only 14 counties nationwide have a lower poverty rate than Monroe County, Illinois, located directly south of St. Louis, according to a new census…
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Professors Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer were startled to recently find a trend in American poverty that they hadn’t seen since the mid-1990s: the number…
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Even Medicaid is out of reach for some of Missouri’s poorest children, who are uninsured at a rate 2.5 times as high as their counterparts in Illinois.…
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On a typical day in 2010, Joseph Volcy found himself sitting outside of his church after choir practice when he felt a great tremble, “like a bulldozer on…
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“We need to do something different.” That was S. Wary Clay's message to parents during a presentation Thursday of the 2015 Kids Count report at the Lessie…
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Last week, St. Louis attorney Marie Kenyon was named the director of the Archdiocese of St. Louis’ new Peace and Justice Commission.The issues Kenyon…
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In 1990, the population of the Spanish Lake community in north St. Louis County was 80 percent white and 20 percent black. By 2010, the population was…
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Organizers of a St. Louis-area diaper drive say they’re extending their effort another week because of enthusiastic community response.Disposable diapers…
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This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.This central pillar of Johnson’s Great Society was designed to finally…
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Less than three years after graduating college in 1989, Jim Ziolkowski quit his corporate finance job at GE and started buildOn, an organization dedicated…