Missouri’s poverty rate rose nearly 3 percentage points between 2008 and 2012, according to a report released by a coalition of social service groups. “Poverty is a blight on the development of our state,” says the report by Missourians to End Poverty, a coalition whose prominent members include the Missouri Association for Social Welfare, headed by Jeanette Mott Oxford, and […]
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