A lawsuit was filed by business owners in St. Louis after a local ordinance set the minimum wage at $10, but the preemptive state law now will reduce it back down to $7.70.
Employers were compelled to cut back the working hours of workers, causing a lower income of minimum-wage workers by $125 per month. Political intervention in the free market always hurts lower-income workers.
The organized left has transported thousands of demonstrators onto the streets of Chicago in new, unmarked buses, and has equipped the demonstrators with professionally printed signs and banners.