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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WEBVTT THIS.PAUL WHAT IS THE ISSUE THE STATEHAS WITH THE PROGRAM?REPORTER: WELL, THE STATE WANTSMORE FOLKS WITH DISABILITIES OUTIN THE COMMUNITY AND IT ITSPUSHING A NAH RULE TO DO JUSTTHAT.BUT ...

By Susan Redden [email protected] Joplin Workshops Inc. has announced plans to lay off 21 workers in a move aimed at “improved efficiencies” for the sheltered workshop. The workshop employs 192 ...