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The law will increase the state's minimum wage from the current $12.30 an hour to $13.75 in January and $15 in 2026.
The $43 million campaign—a record for a Missouri ballot measure—was funded almost entirely by the two companies.
Missouri is one of five states where voters approved ballot measures this year to add the right to an abortion to their state constitutions.
Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City, Iowa, plant after filing for bankruptcy last month.
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters that the aid “is not compensation for anyone’s loss or the pain endured, but it is an acknowledgment by...