We are excited to welcome Seniors Count as a guest columnist for this edition’s Weekly Perspective! Seniors Count is a community-led coalition focused on educating the public and advocating for the needs of adults aged 60 and older. In this passage, Seniors Count provides insight on Prop S in St. Louis County. Prop S would...Read More

Missouri is in the midst of reckoning with one of the many long term consequences of mass incarceration: a rapidly growing number of elders incarcerated in state prisons. The aging prison population primarily consists of individuals who received lengthy sentences for offenses committed decades ago. Increasing numbers of elderly incarcerated people leads to significant increases...Read More

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s largest anti-hunger program and helps millions of people who are at risk for food insecurity every month. Specifically, SNAP is vitally important to low income seniors across our nation.  In 2020, more than 5 million adults ages 60 and older were food-insecure, meaning they had limited...Read More