HIGH COST OF POVERTY TAKES TOLL ON STATE

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Monday, February 15, 1993

Recent statistics supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau give a startling and alarming meaning to diversity in Missouri. In this case, the connotation of the word diversity means poverty, inadequate nutrition, poor health care and an endless chain of despair and hopelessness.

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