× St. Louis minimum wage to revert from $10 to $7.70
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says he will let a bill repealing a St. Louis minimum wage become law without his signature.
The decision announced Friday by Greitens means St. Louis’ $10-an-hour minimum wage that has been in place since early May will come to an end Aug. 28 when new Missouri laws take effect.
The minimum wage in St. Louis had been scheduled to rise to $11 in January under the local ordinance passed in 2015. That’s significantly higher than Missouri’s minimum wage of $7.70 an hour.
A bill passed by Missouri’s Republican-led Legislatures prohibits local minimum wages and nullifies any already in effect.
Greitens says he supports overturning the St. Louis wage. But he says he was frustrated lawmakers had failed to stop it before it took effect.
shvin17 on July 4th, 2017 at 15:43 UTC »
I'm from Missouri, and formerly of the St. Louis area. That Johnson quote "if you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you," was tailor made for this state, and we've allowed our state to be overrun with corruption and greed thinly veiled as patriotism. If you haven't seen it, this is the man we elected as governor, and by a pretty good margin: https://youtu.be/Yf2Gai1uQYM
https://youtu.be/0-VfFi6Z14Q
cardsash on July 4th, 2017 at 15:13 UTC »
This is the same Governor that cut $7.4 million from my college alone earlier this year.
Edit: Forgot a word. Maybe if Greitens didn't cut so much money from my university I wouldn't be making as many typos.
dls2016 on July 4th, 2017 at 14:49 UTC »
According to the governor, if the minimum wage is not lowered, then "it will take money out of people’s pockets."
Try arguing with that logic!