Weekly Perspective Archives - Page 18 of 27

Missouri Falls Short In Providing an Adequate Supply of Rental Housing For The State’s Poorest Renters

The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s newly released report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes 2021, finds a housing shortage of over 122,000 affordable…

Capitol Recap: We Still Have A Chance To Pass Priority Legislation in 2021

The legislature is taking their annual Spring Break this week, which is widely considered to be “halftime” of the legislative session. We’ve spent the last…

Missouri’s HIV Criminalization Laws Harm Us All

We have come a long way in what we know about HIV treatment and transmission since the HIV/AIDS epidemic began 40 years ago. In terms…

If Missouri is Serious About Second Chances, Lawmakers Must Find A Path To Help People With Low-Level Crimes On Their Record Get A Clean Slate

My name is Scott Quirmbach and Clean Slate legislation would change my life. In 1994, when I was 18 years old, I moved to Warrensburg,…

Medicaid Expansion Implementation = A Game Changer For Kids and Families

At Kids Win Missouri, we envision a state where all children have the opportunity to be healthy, happy, and successful. That’s why we supported Medicaid…

Missourians Still Need Immediate Relief Despite Drop in Covid-19 Cases and an Increase in Vaccinations

Within the next few weeks, the U.S. will be approaching one year of living in the worldwide pandemic of Covid-19. This past year has brought…

To Help End the HIV Epidemic, Missouri Must Modernize its HIV Criminalization Laws

Next Monday, health-related committees in both the Missouri House & Senate will hear testimony on nearly identical bills to significantly modernize our state’s HIV criminalization…

Missouri Desperately Needs Police Reform. Lawmakers Should Not Wait To Pass Senate Bill 60!

Below is the testimony that Smart Sentencing Coalition member Kenya Brumfield Young presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 22, 2021 about the passage…

Eviction, Utility Shutoff Moratoriums Can Slow COVID-19 Spread. Missouri needs them.

While Missouri hasn’t had a unified plan to tamp down the spread of COVID-19 in our state, municipalities have put in place many different response…

We Must Not Forget That Our Fight for Criminal Justice Reforms is Critical in 2021

As the 2021 Legislative session gets underway, we must not forget what happened in 2020: Let us not forget how the killing of George Floyd…