Poverty

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon says expanding Medicaid eligibility in Missouri is both "the smart thing" and "the right thing to do."  Nixon announced his support for the expansion on Thursday.  He says it could provide health care coverage to an...

WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will...

Rose Craig knows that a kid is hungry when he asks about second helpings before taking a bite of the meal in front of him. "You see the panic that if they don't eat now, they won't eat later," said the chief professional officer of the Boys and Girls...

For Carolyn Heim and Suzanne Steiner, every Tuesday is cookie time. Starting at 10:30 a.m., the volunteers bring a batch of cookies and milk for a talk at the Arundel House of Hope. This week's topic: Getting a 14-year-old boy to shower. "I don't...

Homebound senior citizens will soon feel the sequester's sting as the series of massive federal budget cuts trickles down to the Mid-South, jeopardizing up to 18,000 Meals on Wheels deliveries this year. The Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association...

Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...

When state House Republicans turned down billions of federal dollars to expand health coverage to a million working poor Floridians, they weren't just heartless. They were hypocrites. In the legislative session that ended this month, the House's GOP...

Following a public hearing with no comments, the city council approved a land use designation that will allow development of new multi-family low-income housing in the area of 2nd Avenue and 12th Street. Wallace Hunter, on behalf of El Toro Casitas LLC,...

South Bloomfield Mayor Rick Wilson's refusal to sign a piece of paper has undercut a proposal to add low-income housing to the Pickaway County village. The village council unanimously supports the plan, but Wilson opposes putting a 50-unit apartment...

By the time Patricia Marshall enrolled at Colby College in the fall of 1990, she had endured a childhood of poverty that likely would have shocked most of her classmates. She had lived most of her years in rural Maine without indoor plumbing. To...

A free tax-preparation service that has helped low-income workers in Erie County since 2006 posted record results this year. Officials with Erie Free Taxes on Thursday said the program helped more people receive more income tax refunds during the 2013...

A new book club, spearheaded by country music legend Dolly Parton, is forming in Erie County. And its members are children under the age of 5. The United Way of Erie County on Thursday announced a project that will offer free books to all area...