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Title: Missouri’s blue-city, red-state divide over minimum wage
*Authors:* Saskia de Melker http://www.pbs.org/newshour/author/saskia-de-melker/ and Laura Fong http://www.pbs.org/newshour/author/laura-fong/
*Source: *PBS NewsHour
*Date *April 23, 2017
Summary: Some of the fiercest political battles are taking place between Democratic-controlled cities and Republican-led state legislatures over issues like minimum wage and plastic bag bans. Increasingly, those issues are decided through a political maneuver called preemption, when state lawmakers write laws that prevent cities from enforcing their local ordinances.
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