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Even with schools closed, summer meal sites in the Kansas City area serve breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, and they may be closer to your home than you think.
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Over 76% of stores in Kansas City are now out of stock of formula. To keep babies fed, friends and family members are sending cans of formula to others with babies, posting on community boards what they see at the grocery store, and donating excess breast milk.
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoes transgender sports ban, parental bill of rights touted by RepublicansThe Democratic governor also vetoed bills that would raise the barrier to eligibility for food stamps and broaden COVID-19 lawsuit immunity for health providers.
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Legal advocates are going to court to seek benefits for Missourians, who they say are being illegally shut out by a long and dysfunctional application process.
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A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Missouri Department of Social Services alleges that its unresponsive call line and burdensome application process for food assistance violates federal law and residents' constitutional rights.
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About half of the 47,000 SNAP applications that Missouri received in September were rejected. That’s a 60% increase from the number of applications rejected in July.
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A new report from the USDA shows SNAP benefits have a bigger impact on rural economies.
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People who work with federal food-aid recipients in Missouri and recipients themselves have said the state’s hotline is slow to answer phone calls. State…