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Rawpixel.com - stock.adobe.com/144030294Small business owners and farmers from Missouri and across the country are raising concerns as uncertainty deepens over the future of federal trade tariffs. A 90-day pause on tariffs expired last Wednesday, with no new trade agreements in place, leaving many businesses facing renewed tariff notices and mounting frustration. -
Business groups lobbied heavily to overturn the measure passed by 58% of voters, arguing it would cost jobs. The bill also repeals annual inflation adjustments for the minimum wage, in effect since 2006.
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School cafeterias may be closed for the summer, but help is still on the table for Missouri families. Through LINC’s Caring Communities initiative, free meals are being served to kids younger than 18 at schools, churches, parks, and other familiar neighborhood sites. -
The Missouri National Education Association hopes to stop the use of the state’s general revenue to fund private school scholarships. -
The 93rd annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors took place June 19-22 in Tampa, Florida. -
The Missouri Foundation for Health is putting its money behind the hard work of five trailblazers. These Missourians have been awarded the foundation's new $200,000 Spark Prize for their work to advance health and well-being. Comments from Evonnia Woods, community organizer and movement builder, and Ciearra "CJ" Walker, founder and CEO, Community Health Worker Coalition. -
A sustainable farming nonprofit warns that Congress’s agriculture bills threaten farmers and cut vital rural programs. In Missouri, with nearly 100,000 farms, the impact could be severe. -
Cape Girardeau’s aging water system is at risk of failure, and an August vote could determine if the city secures funding for critical repairs or faces deeper water shortages in the coming years. -
On Tuesday, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe announced that President Donald Trump has approved two more federal disaster declarations for Missouri, clearing the way for aid to residents and communities recovering from powerful storms and flooding that struck the state in late April and mid-May. -
As St. Louis residents work to rebuild their lives following devastating tornadoes that struck the area last month, the Missouri Foundation for Health and its partners are offering half a million dollars toward relief efforts. -
State lawmakers return to work this week to tackle tax breaks for sports stadiums against a backdrop of sluggish revenues and a declining surplus. -
Contractors have officially broken ground on a new affordable tiny-home community in Branson, where more than one in five residents live below the poverty line.
