Show-Me Institute

Show-Me Opportunity (SMO), in conjunction with the Show-Me Institute (SMI), promotes liberty and free-market solutions to the problems facing...

Following the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), there was renewed...

Defined-benefit pension systems are essentially promises. The government promises a specific benefit to beneficiaries when they retire. You would...

Back in 2015, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported that a proposed Community Improvement District (CID) in Columbia was drawn to include a single...

Jim Spencer at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently wrote about U.S. Senate opponents of short-term medical (STM) plans attempting yet again to...

My colleague Elias Tsapelas has produced a lot of excellent research on Medicaid over the last few months. And this important work will continue:...

Missouri students have a college readiness problem. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) reports that in 2017, just 42 percent...

It’s been more than a year since Missouri legislators passed House Bill (HB) 1413 into law, which at the time was arguably the most comprehensive...

The share of Missouri’s budget consumed by Medicaid just keeps growing. According to the state’s Medicaid agency (page 10), the program will need...

Writers at the Show-Me Institute have been railing against the subsidy culture of Kansas City for years. A wide range of private developments have...