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Missourians are seeing massive delays in receiving services, ranging from call center wait times to court-ordered mental treatment.
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Kansas City is deeply involved in remaking the warheads that stock the U.S. nuclear arsenal. A plant on the southern edge of the city makes most of the non-nuclear parts for nuclear weapons. That plant is expanding rapidly, spreading billions of federal dollars around the metropolitan area.
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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.
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Thanks to a ballot initiative passed by voters in 2018, Missouri's minimum wage rose in the new year to $12 an hour, while tipped workers now have a minimum wage of $6 an hour.
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A culinary program at the reStart homelessness nonprofit is giving young people new opportunities to make money and find stability.
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How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.
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Since opening its doors on Troost in 2016, The Grooming Project has served over 600 people stuck in cycles of poverty.
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Nearly 440 students took part in professional internships this summer to fill their pockets — and their resume.
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Social Venture Studio helps business owners grow their plans to make a social impact in Kansas City.
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Despite long wait times between buses, confusing route changes and other inconveniences, these Kansas Citians use public transit not because they have to, but because they want to. Here's why that matters.
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Mizzou student Rachel Schnelle has been selected for an embedded internship in honor of KCUR reporter Aviva Okeson-Haberman, who was killed in April 2021.
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Missouri’s current unemployment benefit ranges from 13 to 20 weeks, depending on the state’s unemployment rate. The new bill shortens it to as few as eight.