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"Doing The Most Good." In these four words, we strive - to feed, to clothe, to comfort, to care. To rebuild broken homes and broken lives.

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Columbia Daily Tribune -- Columbia’s War on Poverty: It may surprise you that…

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KOMU -- Salvation Army offers fans to help fight summer heat

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Even though veterans are less likely to experience poverty than the general population, about 1.5 million veterans still live below the federal poverty level—a number that represents an increase from that recorded in 2000.

- National Veterans Homeless Support

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Just added a bunch of new community events to this page. Please join our group!

CoMo Church Community Events & Stuff, hosted by The Salvation Army

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CoMo Mobile Aid Collective is one of the great champions for Columbia's people living unsheltered.

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Poverty fact of the day (provided by ChatGPT)

Here is fact 18 of 20.

Children in poverty are more likely to experience social isolation and loneliness.

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Poverty fact of the day (provided by ChatGPT)

Note: ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool that has provided 20 facts about US children facing poverty.

Here is fact 5 of 20.

Children in the United States are twice as likely to experience poverty as adults.

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Poverty fact of the day (provided by ChatGPT)

Note: ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool you can find on the internet and use for free. It gave 20 facts about child poverty.

Here is fact 2 of 20.

Children are the largest age group living in poverty in the United States.

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Poverty fact of the day (provided by ChatGPT)

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool you can use for free. We thought it would be interesting to ask for facts about children facing poverty.

Fact 1 of 20:

In the United States, more than 1 in 5 children live in poverty.

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Women Doing Good Awards

You might like to nominate someone for The Salvation Army’s Women Doing Good Award, recognizing women who do good in our community, making it a better place, in whatever way that might be.

Here is the link to nominate online -- https://t.co/kWBYikx0DB

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Poverty Fact of the Day

In 2021, the Children's Defense Fund found that 18 percent of Missouri children under six were poor.

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Columbia Daily Tribune -- Columbia's War on Poverty: What would you do?

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Poverty Fact of the Day

6.8% of Missouri households are unbanked.

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Poverty Fact of the Day

Missouri -- Rural households are experiencing considerably deeper struggles with hunger compared to metro areas, with higher rates of food insecurity—12.7% vs 10.8%—and higher rates of very low food security—4.8% vs 4.2%. Food Research & Action Center

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Poverty Fact of the Day

6.6% -- Percentage of households that used high-cost, high-risk forms of credit to make ends meet during 2017. This includes payday loans, automobile title loans, refund anticipation loans, rent-to-own, and pawning.

Ranked 19th in the US.

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Poverty Fact of the Day

Missouri’s poverty rate steadily increased from 13.3% in 2007 to 16.2% in 2012. Since 2012, the poverty rate has declined to 13.2% in 2018.

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Columbia Daily Tribune -- Columbia’s War on Poverty: Predictions for 2023

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Poverty Fact of the Day

According to Feeding America, 72% of the households served by its affiliated food banks live at or below 100% of the federal poverty line and have a median annual household income of $9,175.

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Major Kevin Cedervall is in this story, talking about the impact on lower income folks.

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Poverty Fact of the Day

Though the official census data gives seniors a 2018 poverty rate of only 9.7%, the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for expenses such as the rising costs of health care, raises the senior poverty rate to 14.1%.