July 7, 2017
St. Louis minimum wage to drop from $10 to $7.70 an hour
By Rick Moran
Bucking the trend of raising the minimum wage, Missouri lawmakers passed a bill that would standardize minimum wages across the state. This means that on August 28, St. Louis, which had raised its minimum wage to $10 an hour, must lower it to the state level of $7.70 an hour.
Governor Eric Greitens will not sign the bill, but it will become law after a constitutionally mandated time period.
Still to be discovered: Will St. Louis businesses cut the wages of their workers earning the higher wage?
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