As ALEC-inspired legislation makes its way on to the Missouri Senate's calendar, Governor Nixon calls these bills out for what they are-- attacks on workers.
Just as ALEC-inspired legislation makes its way on to the Missouri Senate's calendar, Governor Nixon calls these bills out for what they are-- attacks on workers.
Last week two things happened that should deeply concern all working Missourians. First, the Economic Policy Institute came out with a new report showing so-called 'right to work' states have lower wages, and second an ALEC 'right to work' bill has been added to the Missouri Senate's calendar.
Last year, Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia)'s poorly-drafted and misguided Amendment 5 put some of Missouri's most common-sense gun laws at risk. Unfortunately, the NRA-endorsed legislative "fixes" aren't much better.
A new report on Missouri's clean energy industry, which employs nearly 40,000 Missourians at more than 4,400 establishments, shows the industry is poised to grow an impressive 7% in 2015 and could grow even more with the right public policy.
Sean Soendker Nicholson, Executive Director of Progress Missouri, and Tim Jones, former ALEC Co-Chair and former House Speaker, talk Medicaid Expansion with Jamie Allman.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, famous for recently signing a controversial anti-LGBT license to discriminate bill into law, is headlining Camden County Lincoln Days Saturday, April 11th.
In a segment called "That state is cray," Comedy Central's Larry Wilmore calls out Kansas and Missouri for nonsensical, illconcieved welfare reform measures.
"An oasis of sanity in a state whose officials often seem to care most about receiving gold stars from the NRA, denying women reproductive rights, and transferring money from cash-strapped public services to greedy corporate interests..."
