In Kansas and Missouri, Immigrants are Rooted in the Agriculture Workforce

Farm worker in tree picking oranges

Rows of workers perch on ladders. They hoist hundred-pound baskets, which get heavier with every apple they pluck, around their necks. That’s the grind 14 hours a day, every day except for Sunday, while they earn maybe $13 an hour.  These workers – mostly from Mexico – tend to the apple orchards in Waverly, Missouri.…

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In Full Bloom

Sarah Hemme on her bike

Kansas City’s embrace of green space dates back to the late 1800s, when famed landscape architect George Kessler laid out its system of parks and boulevards. A century later, in 1991, the local chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Kansas State University drew on Kessler’s inspiration to develop MetroGreen. The report, and…

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Push is Underway in Kansas City to Make the 2020 Census Count

American flag held by man

The mantra of the U.S. Census Bureau could very well be: For every vote to count, every person must be counted. That’s because the bureau carries out the constitutionally mandated population count that drives congressional representation. It’s what the census bureau calls the founders’ “bold and ambitious plan to empower the people over their new…

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