COLUMBIA — On Jan. 1, 2024, the minimum wage in Missouri increased to $12.30 an hour.
Missourians endorsed a ballot measure in 2018 that increased the minimum wage each year until it reached $12 per hour in 2023. The measure, called Proposition B, says the minimum wage can increase or decrease each year now based on cost-of-living changes in the Consumer Price Index.
Missouri’s minimum wage history includes several changes over the years.
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Missouri’s minimum wage history, via the Missouri Department of Labor
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Missouri’s minimum wage began rising in 2016 from $7.65 an hour and reached $7.85 in 2018. Following the approval of Proposition B, the minimum wage rose from $8.60 to $9.45 in 2020 and kept rising by 85 cents per year through 2023.
Tim Church, general manager at Tacos 4 Life, said the increase this year won’t impact the business.
“We currently pay introductory wages,” Church said. “Higher than minimum wage.”
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He said the restaurants retention rate is strong.
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“Of course we’re always looking for good quality workers,” Church said. “Our wages I think help draw people in when we advertise that we have openings.”
Church said in his industry, paying employees over the minimum wage is the new normal.
“I think most people are paying a little bit over minimum wage.”
According to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center, Missouri had the sixth lowest cost of living in the United States for the third quarter of 2023, while the state sits slightly above the average minimum wage in the U.S.
Missouri’s minimum wage differs from its state neighbors. In Illinois, the minimum wage is $14 per hour. And in Kansas, the minimum wage rate is the same as the federal minimum wage rate: $7.25.
The Missouri Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Nov. 14, 2025, results for each game:
Winning Mega Millions numbers from Nov. 14 drawing
01-08-11-12-57, Mega Ball: 07
Check Mega Millions payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 3 numbers from Nov. 14 drawing
Midday: 9-9-2
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Midday Wild: 9
Evening: 9-3-5
Evening Wild: 0
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from Nov. 14 drawing
Midday: 6-9-0-2
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Midday Wild: 9
Evening: 1-9-9-0
Evening Wild: 7
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Cash4Life numbers from Nov. 14 drawing
03-23-30-40-60, Cash Ball: 03
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Check Cash4Life payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Cash Pop numbers from Nov. 14 drawing
Early Bird: 01
Morning: 02
Matinee: 10
Prime Time: 09
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Night Owl: 15
Check Cash Pop payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Show Me Cash numbers from Nov. 14 drawing
09-17-20-21-22
Check Show Me Cash payouts and previous drawings here.
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
All Missouri Lottery retailers can redeem prizes up to $600. For prizes over $600, winners have the option to submit their claim by mail or in person at one of Missouri Lottery’s regional offices, by appointment only.
To claim by mail, complete a Missouri Lottery winner claim form, sign your winning ticket, and include a copy of your government-issued photo ID along with a completed IRS Form W-9. Ensure your name, address, telephone number and signature are on the back of your ticket. Claims should be mailed to:
Ticket Redemption
Missouri Lottery
P.O. Box 7777
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Jefferson City, MO 65102-7777
For in-person claims, visit the Missouri Lottery Headquarters in Jefferson City or one of the regional offices in Kansas City, Springfield or St. Louis. Be sure to call ahead to verify hours and check if an appointment is required.
For additional instructions or to download the claim form, visit the Missouri Lottery prize claim page.
When are the Missouri Lottery drawings held?
Powerball: 9:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Mega Millions: 10 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.
Pick 3: 12:45 p.m. (Midday) and 8:59 p.m. (Evening) daily.
Pick 4: 12:45 p.m. (Midday) and 8:59 p.m. (Evening) daily.
Powerball Double Play: 9:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Missouri editor. You can send feedback using this form.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — To grasp the effects of the rush to redraw America’s congressional districts before the 2026 elections, consider one historically Black neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and the small town of Boonville, population 7,800.
The 18th and Vine community is known for a museum telling the story of segregated professional baseball in the decades before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Its leaders are talking about expanding the city’s streetcar line to lure more visitors to its cultural and historical attractions.
About 100 miles (161 kilometers) east, Boonville leaders want federal help restoring an old railroad bridge to give cyclists a more direct route on a popular cross-state bike trail near the mostly white farming community.
The two areas are thrust together under a new map Missouri Republicans passed in September in response to President Donald Trump’s push to give the GOP another winnable seat ahead of next year’s elections. Texas answered Trump’s call first, tilting five seats toward Republicans, but lawmakers in both major political parties are fighting a mid-decade, state-by-state battle to squeeze extra territory out of states they control. In California, voters approved a new House map to boost Democrats.
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Missouri Republicans targeted Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, shaving off portions of his Kansas City district and stretching it into Republican-heavy rural areas.
Congressional districts often mix rural and urban areas, but redoing boundaries can alter priorities and change which federal projects representatives pursue and how they pursue things like health care, housing and education funding. When Congress debates a farm bill, is protecting food assistance benefits more important than preserving crop insurance? It often depends on who’s being represented.
That might explain why Robert Sylvan, an 81-year-old Kansas City resident who attends Cleaver’s church, worries “the whole set of dynamics that impact us” could be upended.
People walk between downtown shops Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Boonville, Mo. Credit: AP/Charlie Riedel
Voters fear being forgotten
Even with U.S. politics deeply polarized, there’s bipartisan agreement on Sylvan’s point.
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Republican state Rep. Tim Taylor, who represents the Boonville area in the Legislature, said farmers Cleaver previously represented didn’t feel he understood them or came around much.
“Where he lives, things are different than they are here,” said Taylor, who voted for the redistricting plan despite misgivings about it.
It’s unclear how any Republican challenging Cleaver in the redrawn district would balance the needs of the two communities. So far, no likely contender is from Kansas City.
Troost Avenue, the city’s traditional racial dividing line, now marks a boundry for redrawn congressional districts in an attempt to flip a seat from Democrat to Republican, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. Credit: AP/Charlie Riedel
Some Kansas City residents don’t expect people around 18th and Vine to get much attention if Cleaver loses. Cleaver was raised in public housing in Texas and preached about social justice as a Methodist pastor in a predominantly African American congregation.
“Naturally, 18th and Vine is kind of his baby,” said Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. “I don’t want it to be forgotten.”
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Not just urban vs. rural
Fewer than 11% of Boonville’s residents are Black, while more than 64% are in 18th and Vine. The new Missouri map could have the state going from having people of color hold two of its eight House seats to one. Non-Hispanic white people are 62% of Missouri’s population but would hold 88% of its seats.
“We could potentially have folk representing us who have no interaction and have never had any interaction with people of color and have no idea of what goes on in the urban context,” said Cleaver’s son, Emanuel Cleaver III.
The areas often see common needs differently. Is the pressing problem with health care cuts that they cause rural hospitals to struggle or that millions of Americans don’t have insurance? An 18th and Vine resident is nearly twice as likely as a Boonville resident to have no health insurance. Boonville has been without a hospital since 2020.
Other differences: Buses stop every 15 minutes in 18th and Vine but must be prescheduled in Boonville. Kansas City leaders want more gun laws to combat violence while Republicans like Taylor have fought to expand gun rights. Trump won 67% of Boonville’s vote, compared with 14% of 18th and Vine’s.
The Kansas City neighborhood, celebrated for barbecue and jazz joints, hosted a 1920 meeting that founded the Negro National League, where Robinson got his start. Later, the area fell into disrepair.
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Cleaver helped change that, seeking taxpayer dollars for 18th and Vine since 1989, first as a city councilman and then mayor before his two decades in Congress. The city’s spending has exceeded $100 million, helped by federal grants. Most recently, Cleaver helped obtain $15.5 million in federal money to renovate the nation’s oldest Black-owned housing cooperative, which he called “one of the citadels for the African American community.”
That project followed Cleaver’s efforts to bring money to neighborhoods on the historically Black side of Troost Avenue, long known as the city’s unofficial racial dividing line. It’s now one of his new district’s borders, which he finds outrageous.
“I feel more skeptical about the society’s direction than I did when I was a kid growing up in public housing,” Cleaver lamented during an interview at the church his son now leads.
Now, 18th and Vine also is home to all-night jazz jam sessions, a dance company, an arts center and an MLB Urban Youth Academy. Kendrick’s museum hopes to raise $35 million to triple exhibit space.
If there’s unease among locals, it’s that they might be priced out as taxpayer money helps transform the area. The city is working on a pedestrian plaza and a parking garage. Local officials are studying a streetcar line extension. There’s no cost estimate yet, but the latest streetcar extension got $174 million in federal funds.
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Carmaletta Williams, executive director of the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, an area museum, wonders about a new representative: “Will they see the value in what’s going on?”
A bike trail lures tourists to Boonville
Boonville is surrounded by row crops and cattle ranches. One local school district graduates fewer than 10 students a year.
Yet it lures tourists with the Katy Trail. At 240 miles (386 kilometers), it’s the longest trail built on former rail lines in the U.S., and work on it began at nearly the same time as the rebuilding in 18th and Vine.
Taylor said after the trail’s first section opened in 1990 it was instrumental in reviving a town that was “pretty much dying” when he was a teenager in the 1980s. His wife runs Taylor’s Bake Shop & Espresso downtown.
Heading into Boonville, bikers detour off the railroad’s original path, crossing the Missouri River on a highway bridge that includes a designated bike path. The path leads them away from a 1932 railroad bridge, which trail riders would love to see refurbished. The city applied unsuccessfully last year for a $236,000 federal planning grant.
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“The Katy Bridge is like the Eiffel Tower of Missouri if it would only be fixed,” said Annie Harmon, who runs a store in downtown Boonville called Celestial Body that sells essential oils, herbs, tie-dyed clothing and crystals.
Missouri has received $30 million in federal funds over the years for the Katy Trail and a related trail-building effort that cycling enthusiasts hope will loop almost 450 miles (724 kilometers), said Brandi Horton, a spokeswoman for the Rails to Trails Conservancy, a Washington-based nonprofit.
“You can’t do trail development at this scale,” Horton said, “without the dollars and the investment that the federal government can uniquely provide.”
There are some significant questions that’ll need to be answered before we have a good idea about what’s going to happen Saturday night in Columbia, Mo.
Most of those questions are centered around who will and who won’t be playing for Mississippi State against Missouri.
The initial Student-Athlete Availability Report listed quarterback Blake Shapen as probable, which is a good sign that he’ll be available for Saturday’s game. Offensive tackle Albert Reese IV was also listed as probable, but safety Isaac Smith was listed as out.
All three of those players are hugely important to the Bulldogs who are down to their final two chances at reaching bowl eligibility. We’ll know more later in the week about their availabilities, but they were available in our latest EA College Football 26 simulation.
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Fair warning, though, to Mississippi State fans who have already experienced enough heartbreak in overtime losses to Tennessee and Texas and what happened at the end of the Florida game, this one beats all of them.