Danielle Dohm, left, Claire Little and Chloe Washington, students at the University of Missouri, sort donated potatoes at the Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri in Columbia last week (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent). For Whitney Jackson and her four children, not knowing if her family will receive federal food assistance next month means trying “to…
A polling location in Jefferson City (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Association of Realtors is asking a Cole County judge to order a rewrite of the ballot summary for a GOP-backed proposal that would make it nearly impossible for constitutional amendments to pass through the initiative petition process. The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, accuses…
Bryant Kagay, owner of Kagay Farms in northwest Missouri, says he has seen a “significant” drop in soybean prices with China ceasing purchases of the crop from the U.S. (photo submitted). U.S. tariff measures, combined with China’s halted soybean purchases, are hitting Missouri farmers where it hurts, threatening billions of dollars in export revenue and…
Advocates gather outside the Hippodrome Theater in Richmond, Virginia, this summer to protest Medicaid cuts. Medicaid covers nearly two-thirds of Black babies’ births in the U.S., federal data shows, and congressional cuts to the program are already limiting reproductive health care in Black and low-income communities. (Photo by Bert Shepherd/Courtesy of Protect Our Care PAC)…
WASHINGTON — The government shutdown became the second longest in U.S. history Wednesday, though the mounting repercussions for dozens of federal programs, including food aid for some of the country’s most vulnerable residents, failed to spur any momentum in Congress. The Senate was unable for the 12th time to advance a stopgap spending bill that…
Assembly mechanic Christy Williams strikes outside of her employer, Boeing aerospace company, in Berkeley, Mo. She joined 3,200 other union members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who went on strike at midnight on Aug. 4 to get better wages and retirement plans (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). Democrat and Republican U.S. senators voiced…
A “SNAP welcomed here” sign is seen at the entrance to a Big Lots store in Portland, Oregon (Getty Images). WASHINGTON — More than 42 million low-income Americans are at risk of losing food assistance Nov. 1 if the government shutdown continues. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which operates the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or…
President Donald Trump speaks as FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi look on during a press conference in the Oval Office on Oct. 15, 2025. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said late Tuesday he is personally owed a massive payment from the Department of Justice and…
According to a report from Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan clean energy and climate policy think tank, household utility bills are expected to increase by an average of $640 annually by 2035 (Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor). Missourians are preparing for the effects of state utility legislation passed this spring along with new policies contained in President…
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Education Department is looking to move the $15 billion Individuals with Disabilities Education Act program outside of the agency, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. In a statement to States Newsroom, department spokesperson Madi Biedermann…
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