More pay for which workers: Minimum wage issues take shape
Fast food and the workers at a recent rally for a $15 minimum wage. File photo.
Should a higher minimum wage not apply to younger workers?
A citizen group – those supporting and opposing a city minimum wage increase – clashed over that and ...
Polls reach different conclusions about minimum wage support
Fast food and the workers at a recent rally for a $15 minimum wage. File photo.
Researchers say a second poll on raising the minimum wage in Kansas City shows stronger support than one released earlier this week. Public Policy Polling conducted ...
City says it is not conducting minimum wage survey
The city says it is not calling people to ask questions about the minimum wage, but someone apparently is.
“KCMO residents have reported receiving phone calls that start out as a survey regarding the minimum wage issue. However, residents ...
City minimum wage discussions continue
Citizens studying a city minimum wage hike on Monday talked of exemptions and timing.
A proposed city ordinance would raise it to $15 an hour by 2020, with a raise to $9 this year.
That is in line with a nationwide push to $15, and Los Angeles ...
Minimum wage discussions continue
Fast food and the workers at a recent rally for a $15 minimum wage. File photo.
Five citizens for and five against a city minimum wage hike skirmished Monday.
Facilitators only had to hit a loud ding button twice when things got too raucous.
The ...
Local workers support council action on minimum wage
Fast food and other low-wage workers and faith leaders today urged the city council to move forward with a minimum wage increase.
In a rally in front of city hall, workers asked the council to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. ...
Study, compromise?: Minimum wage scramble begins
Participants arriving at the minimum wage committee meeting.
A citizen group met for the first time Monday to try to put together a higher minimum wage recommendation to the city council.
Mayor Sly James has agreed to support an ordinance that ...
Minimum wage hike on hold
Those interested in the minimum wage issue filled the city council chamber yesterday for a hearing.
The city council on Thursday delayed action on a minimum wage hike ordinance among uncertainty and legal complexities.
A citizens group that ...
City council gets options on minimum wage hike
City council hearing on minimum wage.
A controversy became more tangled Thursday as the city council held a public hearing on raising the minimum wage.
City Attorney Bill Geary, who has said existing state law forbids the city from raising the ...
Fast food workers’ photos make poverty harder to ignore
Melinda Robinson is one of the photographers in an exhibit documenting their lives.
Every day people see Melinda Robinson as they stop by Taco Bell to pick up some fast food. But most didn’t know anything about Robinson as a person – until ...
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