This impoverished Ozarks family, pictured in their home, was one of many photographed for a 1961 article in the Sunday News & Leader about poverty in the Ozarks.
One household described in the article consisted of 11 individuals, living in a two-bedroom apartment on a monthly income equivalent to $1,400 today.
In 1960, one in four Greene County residents lived below the poverty line. Today, about one in five Springfieldians, including nearly 10,000 children, live in poverty…