{"id":47060,"date":"2025-11-21T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47060\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:01:15","slug":"coat-drives-near-manhattan-state-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47060\/","title":{"rendered":"Coat drives near Manhattan | State & Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since 2010, the poverty rate in America shot up dramatically<\/a> in 2022, according to data from the Census Bureau. That means more Americans can’t afford basic needs like food, clothing, shelter, and utilities than has been the case in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

But the situation isn’t just affecting Americans living in poverty. United Way uses the term ALICE to refer to the increasing number of people who are asset-limited, income-constrained, and employed but are still not able to afford their basic needs. In 2021, 13% of Americans earned below the federal poverty level but many more, 29%, fell under the ALICE umbrella, according to the grassroots movement United for ALICE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A study published in August 2022 from Brandeis University found that more than 75% of low-income families working full-time cannot cover the cost of basic needs. What’s more, fewer than 1 in 5 low-income Hispanic and Black families in particular are able to afford the costs of a household budget. “Full-time work alone isn’t enough to cover the everyday essentials<\/a> most families need to support themselves,” the study’s lead author, Pamela Joshi, who holds a doctorate in social policy, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for ways to help, particularly as the temperatures drop and the holidays approach, consider cleaning out your closet and donating a coat to those in need. To help point you in the right direction, Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of coat drives near Manhattan using data from One Warm Coat<\/a>, a nonprofit that provides free coats to children and adults in need across America. Since 1992, they’ve given out more than 7.85 million coats.<\/p>\n

“This is one very small way to take a step forward and do something very tangible,” One Warm Coat CEO Beth Amodio told USA Today<\/a> in October 2023. “It’s impossible to change the world. But it is possible to change one person’s experience, one person at a time.”<\/p>\n

Read on to find out where you can contribute.<\/p>\n

Wounded Warrior United<\/p>\n

– Address: 3303 Valleywood Dr, Manhattan, KS 66502<\/p>\n

Church Of Christ JCKS<\/p>\n

– Address: 540 Grant Ave, Junction City, Kansas 66441<\/p>\n

Topeka Rescue Mission<\/p>\n

– Address: 401 NW Norris, Topeka, KS 66608<\/p>\n

Grace Erb’s Coat Drive<\/p>\n

– Address: 25165 W 105th Ter, Olathe, KS 66061<\/p>\n

Kansas City Kansas Public School Head Start\/Early Childhood Program<\/p>\n

– Address: 2010 N 59th St, Kansas City, KS 66104<\/p>\n

HOPe Africa<\/p>\n

– Address: 5135 Merriam Drive, Shawnee Mission, KS 66203<\/p>\n

GPT Local Area Network<\/p>\n

– Address: 864 Splitlog, Kansas City, KS 66101<\/p>\n

USD 500- Frank Rushton Elementary School<\/p>\n

– Address: 2605 W 43rd Ave, Kansas City, KS 66103<\/p>\n

J.Crew – Town Center Crossing<\/p>\n

– Address: 4537 West 119th Street, Leawood, KS 66209<\/p>\n

Union Rescue Mission<\/p>\n

– Address: 2800 N Hillside Ave, Wichita, KS 67219<\/p>\n

J.Crew – Country Club<\/p>\n

– Address: 519 Nichols Road, Kansas City, MO 64112<\/p>\n

Mimi’s Pantry<\/p>\n

– Address: 3715 N Oak Trfy, Kansas City, MO 64116<\/p>\n

Roper and Sons South Chapel<\/p>\n

– Address: 3950 Hohensee Dr, Lincoln NE 68516<\/p>\n

SAVE, Inc.<\/p>\n

– Address: 3000 Harrison St, Kansas City, MO 64109<\/p>\n

City Union Mission<\/p>\n

– Address: 1100 E 11th St, Kansas City, MO 64106<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since 2010, the poverty rate in America shot up dramatically in 2022, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[26685,26687,3365,75,84,83,9,24,63,87,6842,15770,26688,14742,26686,10633,4692],"class_list":["post-47060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-basic-needs","tag-distribution-of-wealth","tag-economy","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-poverty","tag-social-issues","tag-social-policy","tag-society-of-the-united-states","tag-standard-of-living","tag-thestacker","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}