In several states, a renter has to make $20 or more an hour to afford apartments being leased at Fair Market Value. Nearly ...

The reversal reflected a growing struggle over the use of ballot measures to answer policy questions in Republican-led states ...

Missouri’s minimum wage rose to $12 an hour this month for most private businesses, up 85 cents from last year. The increase is the final piece of Proposition B, a statewide ballot measure that went ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has signed a repeal of a law guaranteeing paid sick leave for workers and inflationary adjustments ...

The minimum wage is falling further and further behind the rising cost of living. The federal minimum wage peaked in buying ...

ST. LOUIS — The minimum wage in Missouri and neighboring Illinois is set to increase at the start of the 2024 calendar year. But another of Missouri’s neighbors won’t see any change.

Missouri voters approved Proposition A in the November General Election to set the stage for minimum-wage increases over the next two years.. On Jan. 1, 2025, the state’s minimum wage is set to ...

Sunday didn’t just ring in the new year: It also marked an increase of Missouri’s minimum wage to $12 an hour, up from $11.15 last year. Kansas’ minimum wage has stayed at the federal level ...

"Currently the minimum wage for Missouri workers for someone working full time, 40 hours a week amounts to just $492 a week," von Glahn said. "That is not enough to survive on anywhere in the economy.

Minimum-wage workers in Missouri now make $12 an hour. While Missouri and other other states have raised worker pay, the Kansas minimum wage has stayed at the federal level of $7.25 per hour.