GUEST COLUMN: Dialogue important to ensure nobody left out in tough economic times

Across Missouri, families are setting priorities and making difficult choices. Many are having serious discussions across kitchen tables about how their core values will guide them as they make decisions about work, spending and saving. Out of love, parents will sacrifice for children, adult children for parents and siblings, and extended family will help those who cannot help themselves. A caring and strong family will be honest with each other, as fair as they can be and will understand that to remain healthy, not one person can be left out.