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Discussions are underway this week at the Illinois Statehouse about whether to extend unemployment benefits for laid-off steelworkers in the Metro East. A…
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After hours of Senate debate, the Missouri General Assembly ended its annual veto session by barring local communities from increasing their minimum wage…
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St. Louis is one of the first 25 cities where a new U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' initiative to give veterans more educational and employment…
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With no votes to spare, the Missouri House acted Tuesday to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill that would reduce the state’s unemployment benefits…
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Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed his second bill of the session on Tuesday. This bill, House Bill 150, ties unemployment benefits to the state's jobless rate and…
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The Missouri House sent a bill to Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk Tuesday that ties unemployment benefits to the state’s unemployment rate.Currently, law allows…
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The Missouri Senate spent nearly four hours Monday night working on two bills that they chose not to vote on yet.The first one was House Bill 42, the…
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What recovery?That was the question being asked Thursday by a small group of activists outside the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.About a dozen…
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This week’s edition of the Politically Speaking podcast has a mid-Missouri flair to it – primarily because St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo…
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The Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson changed everything.“St. Louis will always be viewed in a pre- and post-Michael Brown era in terms…