Despite Republican opposition, voters may be poised to pass a constitutional amendment to expand health care for hundreds of thousands of residents.
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Cori Bush Seeks to Be a Congresswoman Organizer
The coronavirus survivor and Ferguson activist is primed for this political moment, as she challenges 20-year incumbent congressman Lacy Clay a second time in St. Louis.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Structural Violence of Municipal Hoarding
High-wealth communities segregate and protect their treasure from municipal redistribution.
Posted inPolitics
Six Years After Ferguson, Barriers to Voting Persist
Today’s Missouri primary may not see high voter participation in St. Louis’s African American community.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Riding for Free in Kansas City
Big cities have shunned free public transit. Now, KC’s free-fares push may provide transit systems across the country with a ‘how-to’ guide.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Kansas and Missouri Call a Truce in Corporate-Welfare Border War
Governments in both states have wooed Kansas City–area businesses with tax breaks to relocate across state lines. Now they’re partnering to stop the giveaways.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Meaning of Labor’s Win in Missouri
An overwhelmingly non-union electorate voted in favor of unions. What does that portend?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
For Missouri Unions, the Battle Is Far from Over
Voters rejected “right to work,” but other new laws could curtail workers’ power.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Labor’s Astonishing Missouri Win — and the Opening It Portends
Ohio’s razor-thin vote for an open House seat got most of the headlines, but the bigger story was the defeat of a right-to-work ballot proposition in supposedly right-wing Missouri. The bill to make Missouri America’s 28th state with a “right to work” law was passed by the legislature in 2017 and signed by then–Republican Governor […]
Posted inWorking in America
Missouri’s Greitens Guts Public-Sector Unions on His Way out the Door
The scandal-plagued governor scrambled to sign anti-union legislation and a stack of other bills before he resigned.
