The city of St. Louis spends more money on prisons than education. In 2022, the city spent $216 million on its jails and prisons, while it spent only $194 million on its public schools. This means that the city spends about $1.10 on prisons for every $1.00 it spends on education. This spending disparity is …
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Homeless encampment in St. Louis. AI 2023
There have been a number of companies that have moved out of downtown St. Louis in recent years. Some of the most notable include:Bank of America moved its wealth management operations to Clayton in 2021.Luxco, a liquor distributor, moved its headquarters to Town & Country in 2021.Elasticity, a marketing firm, moved to the Central West …
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The city of St. Louis has part of the 2.8 billion from HUD for the homeless this year and when you include other areas of funding, it gets even bigger. Below is a list of places which provide money for homeless services in St. Louis. In the winter of 2020-2021 five homeless people froze to …
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Historian Gwen Moore, during a Reparations Commission meeting, talks about Jim Crow and how it relates to the St. Louis community today. We all know that the basic way to achieve wealth in this country is through homeownership. For the average person to achieve wealth is through homeownership. If you do not have access to …
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The number of victims of violent crimes in City of St. Louis in 2022, according to ShowMeCrime.mo.gov, equated to 3330 blacks compared to 1015 whites. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, which collects crime statistics from law enforcement agencies across the United States, St. Louis has experienced higher rates of violent crime, …
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Langford Cunningham from Blind City Podcast and Felicia Hampton from The Freeman Bosley Junior Show June 2023
According to showmecrime.mo.gov violent crime reported by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police has been deceasing since 2020. There were 6,018 violent crimes in 2020, 4,831 in 2021 and 571 in 2023 so far.
Rootwad Park is a hidden park located at O’Fallon and Lewis Streets at the vacant 1901 Laclede Power Company building. The building was purchased by Union Electric Power and Light in 1907 and was a working power plant for until the 1940s. Rootwad Park is nestled in the Riverfront Trail that runs all the way …
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