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Missouri workers earning minimum wage would need to work nearly 60 hours a week in order to afford an average one-bedroom rental home in the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missourians casting a ballot of Tuesday gave the nod to medical marijuana, ethics reform, a minimum wage hike, and changes to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In November, Missouri voters will get the opportunity to decided on the legalization of medical marijuana, raising the minimum wage, and…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – With the deadline to turn in signatures for initiative petitions in the Show-Me State now behind us, a number of proposals…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The final hours of the legislative session could be described as a chaotic and dysfunctional end to an abnormal session, as…
House Democrats cite dysfunction for low number of bills Just moments after House Democrats scored two unexpected victories in the House, Speaker Todd Richardson emerged…
ST. LOUIS – St. Louis City will raise its minimum wage to $10 an hour as the clock strikes midnight May 5. Circuit Judge Steven…
The question of whether to let local governments set their own minimum wage isn’t really about policy. It’s about politics. It’s about people’s emotions, not…
In this tale of two cities, passing a local minimum wage increase was the best one could make of the worst of times. Dickens might…