The Labor Secretary tells lawmakers how she’ll handle budget cuts and state lawmakers push back on voter-approved referendums ...

Republican lawmakers are working to cut off ballot measures that enact progressive policies by making it harder for ...

Hours before the adjournment of the 2025 Missouri General Assembly, Republicans overturned the ballot initiatives for abortion and paid sick leave. Missouri Democratic lawmakers now ponder their next ...

Hours before the adjournment of the 2025 Missouri General Assembly, Republicans overturned the ballot initiatives for abortion and paid sick leave. Missouri Democratic lawmakers now ponder their next ...

More Republican-led states are giving paid parental leave to public school teachers and other state employees.

The opening of the legislative special session Monday put partisan and intraparty fights in the Missouri Senate on display as ...

(AP) — Missouri lawmakers are to kick off a special session Monday ... to shut down Democratic opposition and force passage of two measures. One repeals a paid sick leave law approved last November by ...

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When Missouri voters approved a ballot measure last November to provide paid sick leave to hundreds of thousands of workers, Andi Phillips felt hopeful. Gone would be the “complicated math ...

Democrats in the Missouri Senate vowed the procedural moves, which are rarely used, would lead to a "painful" response in the ...

“Abortion remains constitutionally protected in Missouri, and we'll knock on ... businesses to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours of work. If Kehoe signs the measure ...