How St. Louis Workers Won and Then Lost a Minimum-Wage Hike [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/30/174:00 AM

Bettie Douglas has worked at a McDonald's in St. Louis for 10 years. For the last three months, she's made $10 per hour. On Monday, when she got to work, she was working for $7.90 per hour.

Douglas didn’t get demoted, she isn’t in trouble with her bosses, and she didn’t change jobs. What changed is that a new Missouri law went into effect Monday, capping the minimum wage across the state at $7.70. The law overturned higher minimum wages set by St. Louis and Kansas City, in effect cutting many low-income workers’ take-home pay overnight.

[For more of this story, written by David A. Graham, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...e-preemption/538182/]

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