{"id":7854,"date":"2020-07-21T09:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2020-07-21T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:58:06","slug":"jack-bates-minimum-wage-vs-living-wage-education-helps-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/jack-bates-minimum-wage-vs-living-wage-education-helps-business-20200721","title":{"rendered":"Jack Bates&#8212; Minimum Wage vs. Living Wage&#8212; Education Helps Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Thayer, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jack Bates is running in the Republican primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 143. He highlighted the differences between a living wage and a minimum wage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/republican-meet-greet-industrial-park-thayer-candidates-answer-questions-20200719\">Thayer Republican Meet &amp; Greet.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Bates Talks Masks<\/h3>\n<p>Having a medical background with AirEvac, Mr. Bates said that wearing a mask protects other people. It&#8217;s worn to keep you from spreading your germs.<\/p>\n<h3>Living Wage VS. Minimum Wage<\/h3>\n<p>Jack Bates stated that there is a difference between the minimum wage and a living wage. The minimum wage is that everyone should make this amount. Mr. Bates said that a living wage is a calculated way that says in order to own a home or a car, that&#8217;s how much money you need to make.<\/p>\n<h3>Bates Says We Need Workforce<\/h3>\n<p>Jack Bates finished up by saying that to help Oregon County get back on the map, they need an educated workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Bates, who is running for state representative, stated that he wanted living wage at the Republican Meet and Greet in Thayer, Missouri. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[229,201,264,205,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7854"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7874,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions\/7874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}