Missouri Business Alert

Missouri Business Alert serves as a digital news hub, delivering the latest business updates from around Missouri. Its goal is to ensure that business leaders in the state stay updated on the news that matters most to them. This platform is part of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and is run by experienced professionals, along with a team of university students.

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After the Trump administration canceled funding for schools to buy local produce, Missouri farmers hope the relationships continue

1 week ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Meg Cunningham

In 2020 and 2021, the COVID pandemic exposed weaknesses in the United States’ supply chain for key items in American households. The Biden administration spent millions of dollars through the U.S. Department of Agriculture on new programs that helped farmers sell their produce to local schools, create produce boxes for households and provide more direct food access to their communities.
House passes bill that allows income tax reduction for capital gains

1 week ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Kat Ramkumar |Jake Marszewski

Missouri will be the first state to grant a 100% capitol gains deduction if a bill passed by the Missouri House on Wednesday is signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe. Sponsored by Reps. Chad Perkins, R-Bowling Green, and George Hruza, R-St. Louis, House Bill 594 and House Bill 508 would allow Missourians to deduct 100% of all capital gains income reported on federal taxes from their state income taxes.
The number of vacant buildings in St. Louis is decreasing, slowly

1 week ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Lacretia Wimbley

The number of vacant buildings in the city of St. Louis is dwindling, based on an early look at a new report from the St. Louis Vacancy Initiative. The final report will be released this summer. But for now, officials on Wednesday invited the public to take a first look at the upcoming Vacancy Strategy Initiative Report, for which over a dozen city departments and hundreds of community members created a data-driven plan to help reduce vacant properties.
Missouri Senate passes bill to fund sheriffs' retirement system

1 week ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Rudi Keller

A bill to fund pensions for Missouri sheriffs from new fees on court documents and a slice of the money the state pays counties to house prisoners passed the state Senate on a nearly unanimous vote Tuesday, potentially rescuing a retirement system that voters refused to support at the ballot in November.
As Republicans eye sweeping Medicaid cuts, Missouri offers a preview

1 week ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Bram Sable-Smith
Trade dispute yet to hit home, secondhand sporting goods stores say

3 weeks ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Michael Stamps

Amid heightened tariffs between the world's largest exporter of sporting goods and the leading importer of those goods, secondhand sports retailers across Missouri have yet to experience significant changes. “People do tend to ask quite a lot for used goods, what I have, or if they're still wanting to buy new, definitely on the cheaper end,” said Tim Snyder, who manages a Kansas City location of exercise equipment store Push Pedal Pull.
After forcing resignations, USDA tries to walk back staff cuts and calls frontline workers ‘vital’

3 weeks ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Sky Chadde

After forcing the departure of several hundred U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists and inspectors who prevent invasive pest and disease outbreaks, the Trump administration is trying to reverse course and bring some of them back, according to a Wednesday email that Investigate Midwest reviewed.
Ameren seeks approval from state regulators to increase gas rates

3 weeks ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Jana Rose Schleis

Ameren Missouri has asked state regulators for permission to once again increase gas rates. The price adjustment would bring in nearly $40 million more per year. If approved, the gas rate increase would take effect in fall, increasing the average customers’ bill by an estimated $16 per month. Ameren provides gas service for communities throughout the state, including Columbia and Jefferson City.
Missouri agencies scramble as Trump administration looks to slash federal spending

3 weeks ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Meg Cunningham

For Missouri’s 19 community action agencies, federal funding and staffing cuts threaten emergency services like utility assistance, summer food programs and shelter for victims of domestic violence. The agencies run programs like weatherization upgrades for low-income homeowners and Head Start, which provides child care, early childhood education and nutrition assistance for families living in poverty.
Trump's tariffs won't get him what he wants, UMSL researcher says

3 weeks ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Eric Schmid

Increased tariffs imposed by the U.S. have been a hallmark of the first months of the second Trump administration. The back-and-forth policy changes from Washington threaten to upend economic growth and recent cooling inflation, as well as the global supply chains that have developed under free trade.