JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - Legislation that would raise salaries for those working in Missouri's sheltered workshops is on its way to the governor. About 5,600 mentally disabled Missourians are employed in ...

Sheltered workshops are meant to employ adults with disabilities as they prepare to enter the regular workforce. But in Missouri, these subminimum-wage workers rarely "graduate" to higher-paying jobs ...

COLUMBIA - New federal regulations could change the way sheltered workshops, which employ people with disabilities, operate in mid-Missouri. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, or WIOA, ...

Missouri leaders unveiled a new partnership Tuesday aimed at strengthening the state's manufacturing workforce and job opportunities for Missourians with developmental disabilities. The state's Buy ...

Our team is no longer actively reporting on this issue. Thanks to all who participated. We are journalists from ProPublica and The Kansas City Beacon. We want to know what it is like inside sheltered ...

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This project is part of a collaboration between The Kansas City Beacon and the Columbia Missourian examining sheltered workshops. Beacon reporter Madison Hopkins contributed to this report. Cindy ...

VSW’s “Hog Wild for VSW Pig Roast” Fundraiser Set for Saturday, October 19, 2024; Event to Showcase New Partnership with Montgomery VFW The Valley Sheltered Workshop in Batavia will host its annual ...

While touring the Batavia Public Library Friday, a group of about 20 people turned a corner and gasped when they saw a familiar sight. Displayed on the wall in a corner behind the shelves of books ...

An article in the July 1 News, written by Alison Knezevich of the Baltimore Sun, was one-sided and limited in scope. A very important point of view was omitted: the beneficiaries of these sheltered ...

Patty Machelor May 18, 2014 May 18, 2014 Updated Dec 22, 2016 Jennifer O’Neill averages a mere $70 each payday putting together airplane rivets, but she could get a raise when Tucson, like the rest of ...

Andrew Hutinger was beaming as he climbed out of the No. 14 race car Sunday at Apple Creek Farm at Centertown. Hutinger and about 200 other adults with disabilities had the chance to check out race ...