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Brian Munoz/St. Louis Public RadioOne in five residents in St. Louis relies on SNAP benefits. That’s over 50,000 residents who are in need of food assistance. The City of St. Louis created a fund to help fill the gap created by the recent pause in the government’s SNAP program. -
Eric Lee/St. Louis Public RadioThe Missouri Department of Social Services said that due to the new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the state will begin issuing November SNAP benefits.
![Santiago Bianco, 31, of Gravois Park, shops for fresh produce on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, at MARSH Grocery Cooperative in Carondelet. “I felt like I was having a pretty good day, until I learned [MARSH was] closing and I was a little distraught,” Bianco said of the community co-operative that opened in 2020 with a ‘pay what you can’ model. “Now I have to find a new place to get my groceries and prepared meals.”](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/af7d6b2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1671+0+0/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd2%2Fab%2Ffdd578f3465ea16c27cf95c670f2%2F071223-bm-marsh-6.jpg)
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“We're watching what Indiana does,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said at an unrelated event in Alton on Wednesday. “We may have to react to that.” -
Hamm-Niebruegge has served as director of the region’s largest airport since 2010, when then-Mayor Francis Slay appointed her to the position. -
The council voted 6 to 1 to express no confidence in Kanika Cunningham’s leadership of the county animal shelter. -
The St. Louis Development Corporation is sending a second wave of surveys out to business owners. The first survey revealed that more than 216 businesses were severely damaged by the tornado. -
While the city of St. Louis’ benefits package was generally competitive with public and private sector employers of a similar size, salaries for almost all positions were lower, especially at the bottom of the pay scale. -
A report from the council’s ethics committee accuses Dr. Kanika Cunningham of mismanaging the shelter and recommends that a vote of no confidence be held. -
A small Illinois city is rallying for a prominent community member who is currently in ICE detention in Missouri. He was taken into custody after dropping his daughters off at school last week. -
Cote Brilliante was one of a few Black churches in north St. Louis that were heavily damaged by the May tornado. It has since been demolished, and church members say it feels as if their childhood home was destroyed. -
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen reconsidered a bill that extends a blighting determination from the 2000s on the Cortex district in the Central West End. -
St. Louis County is asking residents to donate diapers, formula and wipes at its three health clinics and at county libraries to help residents affected by the federal benefits freeze.
