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Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage.

The move marked a major victory for the state’s largest business group and a frustrating defeat for workers’ rights advocates, who had spent years — and millions of dollars — building support for the successful ballot measure. The repeal will take effect Aug. 28.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 24 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

He also just took away funding for child abuse protection.

He cares more about professional sports than child sexual abuse.

Which is ironic because much of the MAGA platform is stopping pedophiles.

stopping

Im not sure that word means what you think it means.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 15 points 19 hours ago

It was never about child abuse. It was about cruelty to people they don't like.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Much of the MAGA platform is empowering and enabling pedophiles….there fixed it for you

[–] smashing3606@feddit.online 7 points 21 hours ago

Only in public. Their only true platform is to get money and make money for billionaires.