Sen. Jana Hughes of Seward expressed discomfort over how high Nebraska’s minimum wage is compared to its neighbors, noting that Kansas, Wyoming and Iowa have a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

In last year’s November general election, Missouri residents went to the polls and voted for Proposition A, a referendum that increased the state minimum wage to $15 per hour and imposed new ...

The tipped minimum cash wage in the commonwealth is $2.13 an hour. A Kansas resident would need to work 112 hours per week at the minimum wage to afford a typically priced, two-bedroom rental home ...

Missouri legalized abortion, raised the minimum wage and instituted paid sick leave ... "The Democratic populations in Kansas City and St. Louis have driven (initiative petition measures), and ...

Kansas Family Voice and the Kansas Catholic ... more effective strategies to aid pregnant women, including a raised minimum wage and increased access to affordable health insurance.

In the Kansas City region ... and hope to get a job that at least would pay me more than minimum wage to survive,” Ellis says. Treka Henry works as a senior program analyst at the Department ...

The successful ballot initiative also increased the state minimum wage. It was set at $13.75 on ... maneuver in an opinion piece Tuesday in the Kansas City Star, saying changes are needed in ...

Full-time child care costs on average $9,360 annually, which accounts for more than half the income of a minimum-wage worker. Dallas Business Journal has reported on how child care costs impact ...

Workers in the Gilded Age had virtually no workplace safety protections, compensation for injury, minimum wage, right to organize, no old-age safety net, and were governed at the state and federal ...