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A mural at the Kansas Statehouse honors the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case. Today, writes opinion editor Clay Wirestone, legislators are waging war on the poor through public education. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

Kansas legislators’ war on the poor opens worrisome new front: School vouchers and tax avoidance

BY: - March 20, 2023

Editor’s note: This opinion piece comes from the Kansas Reflector, but the issues discussed echo those in Arkansas. Kansas legislative leaders have declared war on the poor. They have pushed bills penalizing those receiving government assistance through the House Welfare Reform Committee. They have advocated a flat tax plan that benefits the wealthy at the […]