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After years of flexibility, Missouri employers call workers back to the office
(Illustration by Lauren Steffens). Earlier this year, Gov. Mike Kehoe’s administration sent an internal memo to Missouri state employees requiring their return to office by late March. Across the state and throughout the country, other employers, including AT&T, JPMorgan and Ford, have taken similar steps this year. With 2025 marking half a decade since the…
Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers
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Missouri’s income tax amendment risks higher costs and fewer services for seniors
Missouri lawmakers don’t need a constitutional amendment to cut income taxes — they’ve been doing that for decades. The purpose of the constitutional amendment is something different: it opens the door to new taxes on goods and services by bypassing long‑standing prohibitions on taxing real estate, health care and agriculture (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector). A proposed…
Fewer preterm births and C-sections. Doulas seen as key to improving maternal health in Kansas City
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