One weekday morning in July, Kerstie Bramlet was at her workstation inside the Warren County Sheltered Workshop near St. Louis, Missouri, putting plastic labels on rabbit-meat dog chews one by one.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...