State aid program for poor dies after 66 years

Monday, August 4, 2003

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri General Relief program, which provided meager monthly checks to thousands of low-income disabled people with nowhere else to turn, has died. It was 66 years old.

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