What’s wrong With Kansas? Plenty when it comes to the minimum wage. Jesse Russell has more.

The minimum wage in the state of Kansas is $2.65 per hour. That’s the lowest in the country. Kansas Republicans soundly defeated an attempt to raise the state minimum so that it would be equal to the federal minimum wage - $5.15 per hour. Roughly 19,000 workers in Kansas, in agricultural and certain service jobs are covered by the state minimum and not the federal. Every one of the 63 legislators who voted against raising the state minimum wage were Republican. Earlier in the day there was another bill that would have completely abolished the minimum. That bill narrowly failed in a 56-62 vote. Kansas is the only state in the union with a minimum lower than the federal minimum. And 28 other states have wages higher than the federal.