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A Dillons grocery store closed. Three central Topeka census tracts became federally designated food deserts. Now a local movement aims to fill the gap.
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Library users tend to return books in a timely way even when they don't face fines. And libraries might save money by putting less effort into collecting small fees.
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The Jackson County Health Department found that most local schools adequately supply period products, but 67% of surveyed staff said they were aware of students missing school because of their period.
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In "Profit and Punishment," Tony Messenger dissects the ways in which America is creating a new model of debtors' prison.
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Statewide housing shortages continue to lock middle class Kansans out of home ownership and threaten the state’s economic growth. A new study highlights some solutions.
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The federal government has begun sending billions of dollars in advance child tax credits to families across America. But among refugees in southwest Kansas, a lack of communication about the monthly payments in their native languages is already hindering the rollout.
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A shortage of affordable housing in Kansas City is not a new problem. But the pandemic exacerbated the crisis and exposed the region's failure to act.
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Sisters Corita Bussanmas and Berta Sailer co-founded Operation Breakthrough in 1971. Bussanmas could be stern, but she loved every child she cared for.
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Sarah Lloyd Green, a fierce women's rights activist, stood up for waitresses, Black and white laundry workers, women trolley conductors, soap manufacturers, and meat packers. Yet her story is not well known.
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Why finding a better response to the plight of Kansas City's homeless is so difficult.
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As Kansas City prepares to close the temporary shelter at Bartle Hall a better plan for the homeless remains elusive, and some COVID-19 variants have found their way to Missouri and Kansas City.
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The political and cultural divide between urban and rural communities is as deep and sharp as ever. But the two regions have a lot in common: drug abuse, poverty and a shortage of affordable housing. That’s the short list.