Missouri
Missouri coalition standing up for immigrant rights
March 8, 2013"We have to do things that welcome immigrants to our state," Vanessa Crawford, executive director of MIRA, told members and activists from all over Missouri.
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Move to expand Medicaid in Missouri
January 17, 2013"We have an opportunity to expand Medicaid here in Missouri. We have an opportunity to give security to over 250,000 people who currently do not have health care."
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Missourians: Real deficit is the jobs deficit
December 13, 2012"We cannot cut our way to job creation," the Rev. Roosevelt Broadnax told labor and community allies.
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After death, new Missouri law protects utility workers
October 8, 2012A new utility workers protection law passed in Missouri could become a model for other such legislation nationally.
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In Missouri, some Republicans help stop anti-union push
June 7, 2012A dozen or so Republicans signaled their leadership that they wanted no part of the anti-union agenda.
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