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2009 Welfare Stories

• 12/15/2009: Newspaper Story - Since 2002 Missouri has had a glitch in their system for reporting food stamps leading to a large misreporting of people in the system.
• 12/15/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri Department of Social Services found a computer glitch that has been reporting food stamp numbers wrong for seven years.
• 12/ 7/2009: Newspaper Story - One Missouri state representative wants to give voters the chance to block the national health care legislation.
• 12/ 7/2009: Radio Story - Despite Missouri's worst budget crisis in years, two rooms full of people lined up to ask for more government money Monday.
• 12/ 2/2009: Newspaper Story - Chris Kelly will no longer be the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
• 11/16/2009: Radio Story - The state's unemployment rate dipped in October as 4,000 more Missourians found work.
• 11/16/2009: Radio Story - A judge has denied Missouri's state auditor the right to audit the state's retirement system for local government workers.
• 11/ 9/2009: Newspaper Story - The health care bill, which was approved with a 220-215 vote, had Missouri representatives split on partisan lines except for Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., who voted against the bill.
• 11/ 4/2009: Newspaper Story - Many of Missouri's legislators have expressed concerns about expanding Medicaid in the given budget environment.
• 10/28/2009: Newspaper Story - Health services would suffer some of the biggest cuts under the governor's new spending plan.
• 10/27/2009: Newspaper Story - H1N1 vaccines
• 9/ 9/2009: Newspaper Story - While conservatives across the county complain about a public option, several public plans are available in Missouri, many Republican-backed.
• 8/26/2009: Newspaper Story - McCaskill holds health care town hall in Jefferson City
• 5/13/2009: Newspaper Story - The House passes Show Me Health Care with some changes.
• 5/12/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri House passed a bill that was deemed the last vehicle for health care.
• 5/ 2/2009: Newspaper Story - The House Health Insurance Committee has released their changes to the Senate version of Show Me Health Care.
• 4/16/2009: Newspaper Story - The Senate voted in approval of Show Me Health Coverage, a bill that would give health coverage to 35,000 uninsured parents.
• 4/ 7/2009: Newspaper Story - The legality of a bill that requires drug tests of welfare recipients was questioned.
• 4/ 3/2009: Newspaper Story - For a second year in a row, a Senate plan to expand health care coverage is dividing GOP legislators.
• 3/11/2009: Newspaper Story - House committee passes fiscal year 2010 budget bills
• 1/28/2009: Radio Story - Missouri Supreme Court Justice calls for more money to defend accused criminals