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, ...

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 ...

As details from President Joe Biden's stimulus bill emerged last week, concerns grew it would cause the end of sheltered workshops. The workshops employ people to do a wide range of tasks that ...

Proposed changes to a federal rule have people who operate sheltered workshops concerned. President Joe Biden administration's stimulus bill, known as the American Rescue Plan, would eliminate Section ...

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 ...

Working as a member of the surgical turnover team at Mercy Hospital St. Louis, Jack McGauley finds himself regularly learning important new skills. That’s been true even during the coronavirus ...

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 ...

For this work, Bramlet earns $1.50 an hour. It’s legal to pay her such a low rate because she works at what is known as a sheltered workshop, which can pay subminimum wages to disabled workers like ...