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The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing two cases, one from St. Louis and the other from Kansas City, seeking to allow higher minimum wages in each…
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Around 200 demonstrators were in Jefferson City Monday calling for Missouri to adopt a $15 an hour minimum wage and other reforms to help the state's low…
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Monday is the last day of the Board of Aldermen session that began back in April. Things start fresh again the very next day.Aldermen introduced 324 bills…
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On another edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies welcome St. Louis Alderman Cara Spencer to…
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After St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay threw his support behind raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, state Sen. Kurt Schaefer issued a stern warning.The…
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Professors Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer were startled to recently find a trend in American poverty that they hadn’t seen since the mid-1990s: the number…
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Low-wage workers in St. Louis will not be getting the raise they expected on Thursday.Judge Steven Ohmer ruled Wednesday afternoon that a law boosting the…
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The fate of St. Louis’ minimum wage law is in the hands of a judge.St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer heard arguments on Tuesday over a law raising the…
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When attorneys resume a legal fight this week over St. Louis’ minimum wage law, the atmosphere will be very different from when they first clashed in the…
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On the latest edition of Politically Speaking, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Rachel Lippmann welcome St. Louis Alderman Lyda Krewson to the…