Tag: Ending Poverty

Ending Poverty

The expert testimony, research, scholarship, and lived experience collected by the Commission revealed the following: Federal Reserve economists conducted an analysis of factors impacting per capita income growth and the growth of metropolitan areas at large for nearly 120 metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. as part of a report for the Fund for Our Economic…

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Ending Childhood Hunger

The expert testimony, research, scholarship, and lived experience collected by the Commission revealed the following: According to Feeding America, the country’s largest food bank system, more than one in five of Missouri’s children (21.6 percent) live in food-insecure households (Feeding America, 2013). Food security “means access by all people at all times to enough food…

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