Looking to skill up? A series of virtual job fairs in Missouri want to help the state and its work force rebound from the pandemic, beginning with a job fair for health care workers Sept. 29.
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Rosemary Smith Lowe broke color barriers in a segregated city, forged Black political power, raised up neighborhoods and, even in her 70s, could stand as a fulcrum of peace between police and angry youths. LINC remembers one of our founding commissioners.
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The work to help all children “cannot be the schools’ responsibility, alone,” write leaders in the campaign by the United Way of Greater Kansas City, SchoolSmartKC and Turn the Page Kansas CIty. “It requires the collaboration of our whole community.”
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Without more financial relief, warn advocates for both tenants and landlords, evictions, foreclosures and bankruptcies will come falling down as from a burst dam when the current, inadequate pandemic protections give way.
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Registered and Ready to Vote? Join the Library for National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 22. Drop by any library branch in person and register to vote. Library staff will deliver registrations to the appropriate election board.
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The path to this moment — when tears slipped from a grandmother’s eyes — had wound its way door by door through neighborhoods that are hurting. Like many of LINC’s Caring Communities site coordinators, Danisha Clarkson was out in the field helping her partner school reach families of children who were unaccounted for or needed help in the new school year . . .
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The new online school year continues to pose a challenge for families as everyone is trying to master technology and online platforms that are critical to their child’s success in school. The Kansas City Public Schools will be using its Parent University to help families succeed.
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Do you need help sorting out this pandemic-twisted, politically fraught election season? Actual voting can begin as soon as Tuesday for the Nov. 3 election and a wave of organizations and volunteers are rolling in to help people find their best path to casting their ballot.
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As part of the city’s ambition to get everyone everywhere access to the Internet, Kansas City wants to know who is — and isn’t — adequately connected. A phone text survey, in English or Spanish, will help the city direct efforts where it is needed most.
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An early childcare industry that has long operated on thin financial margins is struggling to survive the pandemic. Early childhood educators warrant hazard pay and working parents are increasingly caught in a bind. And with important state aid expired, the situation is only worsening.
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The Educare training network is opening free virtual support groups for all early childcare providers in the Kansas City region. The Idea Exchange features a series of Zoom events this fall. Preregister for these free events.
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With Labor Day behind them, the rest of the area’s school districts leapt into a most daunting school year this week. LINC was there to help as parents, teachers and their collective school community navigated the anxious first steps of remote learning.
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The COVID-19 pandemic consequences are all too clear, from an inability to seek out social services, search for a job, or now do schoolwork to the heartache of disconnect from family and friends. That’s why the Kansas City Public Library is offering Wi-Fi hotspots for a free, 14-day checkout.
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Call us. Do you need help assisting your child in online school? Are you seeking food resources? Do you know a neighbor in need? Connections to legal aid? Books for your children? Tips for seeking utility or rent assistance?Whatever the need, your LINC Caring Communities site coordinators are on the ground and ready to answer the call.
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Those weren’t their faces in the line of picture portraits. Nor were those their names. But the University of Kansas Health System professor telling their stories in an alarming public forum Wednesday assured that they and the devastation of Covid on their lives were real.
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The equation dogging election boards in staffing Election Day polls is laced with variables that are either unknown or just plain bad. What this equation needs is a lot of new recruits to work the polls Election Day.
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The pandemic and its pain goes on, and so will the nation’s free food service for all children. The USDA announced that it is extending benefits through the end of the year for schools and other child programs to help all families with children continue receiving free meals.
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Yes, Lord, it’s that easy. Two minutes on your phone. Go to Vote411.org. Tap on “register to vote.” Sept. 13, “Registration Sunday,” church communities in KC will be taking a moment to get unregistered voters tapping their phones.
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The checks could arrive even by the end of the week, retroactive to Aug. 1. Missouri is one of 30 states that gained federal approval to begin dispersing an additional $300 a week in unemployment benefits to some out-of-work Americans,
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Here’s hoping that every school district will be able to say in the end that they planned right for Covid. Because, with no clear path through the pandemic, schools open the year vulnerable to second-guessing, whether all online or inside buildings with their teachers.
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