Affordable Housing and Kansas City: Further Thoughts
(You can read part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, and part eight in this series here.) The concerns...
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Part Four: Does Kansas City Have an Affordable Housing Problem?
(You can read part one, part two, and part three in this series here.) In the previous blog post in...
Missouri’s Budget: A Primer (Update)
Nearly three years ago, my essay “Missouri’s Budget: A Primer” was published. In the years since, a lot has changed...
Missouri Budget: A Primer (Update)
Nearly three years ago, my essay “Missouri’s Budget: A Primer” was published. In the years since, a lot has changed...
Podcast: 2022 Priorities, a Win in Webster, and Fight for $15 in Jeff. City
Susan Pendergrass, David Stokes, and Elias Tsapelas join Zach Lawhorn to discuss legislative priorities for 2022, the rejection of a...
Costs of a Cosmetology License
Would you spend over $14,000 on extra schooling to make barely more than minimum wage? It sounds ridiculous, but that’s...
Who Will Speak For the Family Businesses They Shut Down?
Late last night and into the wee hours of today, the Missouri Senate debated a bill that sought to rein...
SMI Podcast: The GameStop Revolution
On this episode of the podcast, Howard Wall joins Susan Pendergrass. Dr. Wall directs the Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise...
Action Civics: Teaching Students to Become Activists (Part 3 of 3)
In my previous two posts on action civics (which you can find here and here), I have suggested that this...
Fight for 15 . . . Hours Per Week?
Activists have spent years trying to persuade lawmakers to raise the minimum wage to $15. In a possible effort to...
Free Your City and the Growth Will Follow
One of the difficult things about public policy is convincing policymakers that they really don’t need to “do something” to...
2018: A Bad Year for Government-failure Deniers
Are you a government-failure denier – someone who believes that the government that governs best is one that overflows with...
2018: A Bad Year for Government-failure Deniers
Are you a government-failure denier – someone who believes that the government that governs best is one that overflows with...
Show-Me Institute’s September 2018 Newsletter
In this issue: Minimum wage Bryce’s Law Privitization of trash collection Missouri’s Show-Me Checkbook Child-support payment compliance Economic development subsidy...
Show-Me Institute’s June 2018 Newsletter
In this issue: High school graduation rates Special taxing districts Legislative session recap Minimum wage Subsidy reform Course access Click...
Enough: Earned Income Tax Credit’s Failure Wasn’t Because “Corporate Interests” Were Prioritized
In the last few days, several Missouri editorial boards have published pieces bemoaning the income tax cuts passed by the Missouri legislature,...
An Emerging Policy Frontier: Workforce Development
One of the hottest topics of 2018 will be the reform of the state’s prevailing wage laws, and because of that,...
Is School Choice Racist?
According to the leadership of the American Federation of Teachers, the opinion page of the New York Times, and the...
Man versus Machine in Saint Louis
We’ve written about the encroachment of machines into the workforce previously. From fast food kiosks to the advent of workplace...
Keep the Line Moving: Looking Beyond the 2017 Session
The Missouri legislative session ended May 12th, and there are enough storylines of intrigue, failure, and victory to fill a...
