by cjhuff | Mar 2, 2018 | Child Poverty
Recently, I spent some time in North Central Missouri in the community of Edina. A rural community in Knox County that bears a striking resemblance to the area I grew up in Southeast Kansas. A community group had come together to implement the Bright Futures...
by cjhuff | Nov 4, 2017 | Child Poverty
A few years ago I had the opportunity to spend some time with Missouri Senator Roy Blunt. We were walking around a retrofitted big box store at Joplin’s Northpark Mall that had been converted into our temporary 11th and 12th-grade campus following the Joplin...
by cjhuff | Jul 28, 2017 | Child Poverty
There is no question a correlation exists between poverty and opportunity. However, what that correlation looks like depends on whom you ask. For some, poverty should not exist because everyone has the same opportunity. After all there are plenty of examples of...
by cjhuff | Jun 30, 2017 | Child Poverty
In the last couple of years, I have had the great privilege of visiting with Dr. Ruby Payne on a number of occasions. I can think of no one who has had more influence on the national conversation around childhood poverty in America over the last two decades than Dr....