Missouri’s minimum wage is $7.85 per hour. Will voters raise it to $12?
Missouri voters set to decide minimum wage reform https://t.co/nk5WBsIzgR
— St Joseph Post (@StJosephPost) October 5, 2018
Proponents of the measure — Proposition B — say minimum wage just isn’t livable, but critics worry raising the minimum wage would burden small companies, forcing them to go out of business or cut back on hours. That, they argue, would hurt the very minimum wage workers who hope to benefit from a raise.
Could there be a solution to a side effect of fracking?
New research shows that limiting wastewater injection is helping to prevent man-made earthquakes in Kansas https://t.co/Ho8AfbckKp pic.twitter.com/Uy8fejQIgT
— Kansas News Service (@ksnewsservice) October 4, 2018
Langenbruch said injection limits put into place by state regulators have made a difference. His model predicts that at current injection rates, the number of widely felt earthquakes in Kansas and Oklahoma will decrease to as few as 100 by 2020. That’s down from the thousands of earthquakes felt in the area at its peak in 2015.
“Based on our model we can make scientific decisions about how to optimize injection rates in space in time to mitigate the seismic hazard,” he said.
A number of states are looking to implement automatic voter registration.
Democrats call for automatic voter registration in Kansas, bash Kris Kobach
Via @sherman_news #ksleg #Topeka https://t.co/osfutfMYS2
— CJOnline (@CJOnline) October 4, 2018
A federal court judge earlier this year struck down the state’s voter registration requirements, and issued a contempt finding because Kobach failed to comply with her order. Kobach defended the law as necessary to stamp out voter fraud, arguing that the few known examples of illegal voting were just the tip of an iceberg.
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“And I don’t believe he’s done so because he thinks it’s good for the state,” Scalia said. “I think he’s done so because he’s pandering to an anti-Democratic force.”
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