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? St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Minimum wage workers in St. Louis are making $10 an hour after winning a two-year legal fight against business groups who challenged a 2015 city ordinance authorizing an increase. Under that city law, the wage was set to rise again in January to $11 an hour, then increase annually with inflation. "It will kill jobs," Greitens said of the increase. "And despite what you hear from liberals, it will take money out of...(Read Full Post)