{"id":476,"date":"2023-10-10T18:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressmo.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2023-10-10T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:50:55","slug":"missouri-children-are-in-poverty-legislators-are-ignoring-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/missouri-children-are-in-poverty-legislators-are-ignoring-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Children Are In Poverty. Legislators Are Ignoring Solutions."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With the expiration of key aid programs for families, working Missourians are struggling to keep their households afloat. The result: over 17% of Missouri children are in poverty<\/a>, including nearly one in five children under 5 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

States around the country are proposing innovative solutions to child poverty, like Enhanced Child Tax Credits. 15 states have implemented or improved their child tax credit programs<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Missouri has experience with Enhanced Child Tax Credit programs: the federal program drove child poverty in Missouri down to 12% Within the first month of the program\u2019s expiration, child poverty increased from 12.1% to 17%.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also know more children live in poverty in states that haven\u2019t raised the minimum wage<\/a>. An increase in Missouri\u2019s minimum wage would help bring more Missouri families into the \u201clivable wage\u201d range. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only are Missouri officials refusing to take action, they are actively stripping pre-exisisting programs and exacerbating the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As families flounder, Missouri officials have taken healthcare from kids. More than 75% of kids who lost coverage in the last three months were due to procedural issues<\/a>, like paperwork getting lost in the mail. Other states have paused terminations to figure out how they can improve their systems \u2013 but not Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missouri also made headlines earlier this year when officials turned down federal dollars for free lunch for poor kids<\/a>. Missouri was one of only 10 states who turned down the money, forcing kids in poverty to go without food for the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the expiration of key aid programs for families, working Missourians are struggling to keep their households afloat. The result: over 17% of Missouri children are in poverty, including nearly one in five children under 5 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}