Period Poverty

A local nonprofit wants to bring awareness to period poverty this week. In St. Louis, the issue affects roughly two-thirds of women.

Diapers aren’t luxury items, but they’re considered as such in Missouri’s tax code.

Nurses in schools across Missouri say their students struggle to afford period products and have missed school because of periods.

About 1 in 3 female students surveyed at a St. Louis County public high school reported they had missed school because they couldn’t afford to buy tampons or pads, often at least one day per month.

Christy Ferguson started the Mensi Project in 2018 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to donate unneeded menstrual products to someone who could use them. Now the university is funding the effort with the help of new legislation.

Last year, a report in the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology found that nearly two-thirds of low-income women in St. Louis can’t always afford…

A report published in the latest issue of the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology surveyed low-income women in St. Louis and found that nearly…