If you have not yet filed your 2019 federal income tax return — or gotten your economic stimulus check from the government, here are some important facts. You’ve got time. You may be able to file for free. And you may need to file to get your government stimulus check.
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It almost goes without saying, but Recommendation No. 1 in the state’s recent advice to school districts on how to run summer school is: “Maximum flexibility.” And with the uncertain horizon before them, expect the same come the start of the next school year in August.
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The eagerness to reopen Kansas City passes the point of pain for so many. The competing official declarations and the public health warnings have created a hall of mirrors as we try to find the right way out to recover lives that will never be the same again.
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Throughout the city, reading advocates like LINC partners Turn the Page KC and First Book are inventing ways to get essential books into the hands of children and support to their parents and guardians.
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Many low-income families can get help with their utility bills from support agencies and through the utility companies themselves. And families that are concerned should be making applications sooner than later.
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The disconnect that is threatening communities with the closing of schools, churches and other public encounter spaces may be not only concealing violence, but putting more vulnerable residents in danger as households struggle with economic and social stress.
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The pandemic was shutting down Missouri’s state-run schools for troubled youth. Teachers worried for their students whose tenuous grasp on education means so much to their chances to rise. Then, assuredly, an answer came to them: “Oh, right. Star School.”
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Kansas City health providers are working with city and county officials to bring more coronavirus testing and screening to the community. Virtual screening tools and more testing operations are setting up in church parking lots and other neighborhood sites.
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The state warns that scammers are targeting new applicants for unemployment with phishing attempts to steal personal information. Here’s what to watch for.
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While Connecting for Good was distributing computers and hot spots to Kansas City families Friday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced $3.05 million in awards to support projects throughout the state to provide broadband during the pandemic.
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There cannot be a “colorblind” response to how Kansas CIty delivers aid during the COVID-19 pandemic, said speakers in a Facebook Live rally by Communities Creating Opportunity Thursday. The city must “bear witness to the deep unrelenting pain . . . (of) a racialized system.
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All the inequities in the opportunities that Missouri children have for healthy lives — charted by the Missouri KIDS COUNT report since 1993 — will come under unprecedented strain during and after the pandemic.
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Alarms are sounding for the welfare of many people whose government check is proving problematic. Concerns with debt collectors, wrong bank account information, or no bank information or no mail delivery information are threatening to deny economic aid to many people who need help most.
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We here at LINC and many of our partners are getting creative in offering educational and recreational activities for our families and their children as the pandemic requires us to stay at home. Keep up to date on our LINC online activities page.
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The U.S. Census’ interactive Response Rates map shows that the feared undercount among Kansas City’s lower-income neighborhoods is already being established. And efforts to combat it are caught in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Even though few were taken by surprise by Missouri’s decision to close schools for the rest of the school year, the questions over what happens next aren’t any clearer on the day after.
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InPlay’s interactive web site that gather’s and sorts options for out-of-school time programming for families was deep into its second year of serving Kansas City when, like everyone else, the pandemic changed everything.
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With so many jobless, so many fearing to join already swollen ranks of homeless, and both renters and landlords fearing mounting debt, the rally called for a statewide moratorium on rent and mortgage during the pandemic.
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The first week without Kansas City Public Schools meal service has some providers worried that parents and guardians are not getting the message of where they can go.
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A disturbing drop in the number calls to the Missouri child abuse hotline is sparking an urgent call for everyone to help keep watch on the state’s children in the awareness campaign, #Essential4Kids.
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