COVID-19, a labor force exit, an increase of minimum wage rates and the increase of costs are all factors, too, a professor of supply chain at UMSL said.
Destiny was involved in a hit-and-run accident that nearly took her life on Nov. 14, 2020, in the Grove neighborhood. She survived thanks to blood donations.
When it comes to the wealth gap, a college degree “doesn’t serve as an equalizer among Black and white families,” said Lowell Ricketts, a data scientist with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.