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Poverty is local. It is global. And it affects us all.

Community Action Partnership is active at the state and national level in helping improve policies that help families out of poverty, and to create policies that prevent poverty from taking root. Our staff members take part in local and national trainings to learn new approaches to fighting poverty and share ideas with other experts in the field. Please contact us to learn more about poverty in Northwest Missouri, or to plan a Poverty Simulation for your organization or workplace.

Poverty data for Buchanan County and Missouri:
U.S. Census Bureau www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/index.html

Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis, University of Missouri Extension http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/

State of Missouri Community Data Profiles http://www.dhss.mo.gov/CommunityDataProfiles/

Kids Count data for Missouri http://www.aecf.org/

Kids Count data for Individual Counties in Missouri http://www.kidscount.org/cgi-bin/cliks.cgi

Missouri Census Data Center, Demographics for Buchanan County http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/broker?_PROGRAM=websas.acsprofile.sas&_SERVICE=appdev&geoid1=05000US29021&geoid2=04000US29

National-level data:
“How We Measure Poverty,” from theLos Angeles Times www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-blank15-2008sep15,0,3772475.story

The Economic Costs of Child Poverty: Testimony Before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=901032&renderforprint=1
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007
U.S. Census Bureau Report http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty07.html

“The Rewards of Education” New York Times graphic http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/06/09/magazine/10payne.graphic.ready.html

Authors/speakers on poverty:

“Bridges Out of Poverty,”by Ruby Payne http://www.ahaprocess.com/Community_Programs/

“See Poverty, Be the Difference,” by Donna Beegle http://www.combarriers.com/about

State and national Community Action organizations:

Missouri Association for Community Action (MACA) http://www.communityaction.org/

Community Action Partnership, the National Association, Washington, D.C. http://www.communityactionpartnership.com/

National Community Action Foundation (NCAF) http://www.ncaf.org/