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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States. The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and summer 2000.
It started as a weekly, The Kansas City Enterprise, on September 23, 1854, a year after the city's founding and shortly after The Public Ledger went out of business. Kansas City's first mayor, William S. Gregory, and future mayors Milton J. Payne and Elijah M. McGee, along with city fathers William Gillis, Benoist Troost, Thompson McDaniel, Robert Campbell and Kansas City's first bank and ...
The City of Kansas City commenced operating on November 26, 1947, and made a daily 278-mile (447 km) round trip schedule between St. Louis and Kansas City. At the time of its introduction it was the only streamliner which operated entirely within the state of Missouri.
The haters used to call Kansas City “Gully Town.” A reader asked us to explain the transformation. ‘Kansas City is so ugly’: How our town leveled up from its dirty, hilly, homely past
Location of Kansas City in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas City, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Jackson County portions of Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude ...
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The Kansas City area has the highest percentage of people experiencing chronic homelessness living unsheltered of any major U.S. city, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Housing and ...
The 22 "Community Bookshelf" book titles (in order from West to East on 10th street): [1] [2] Kansas City Stories, Volume I. Kansas City, Missouri; Its History and Its People 1808-1908 (Carrie Westlake Whitney) 1908; Tom’s Town, Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend (William M. Reddig) 1986; Goin’ to Kansas City (Nathan W. Pearson, Jr.) 1987