Saint Louis City Board of Aldermen Passes Saint Louis County Employment Act of 2015
The Saint Louis Board of Aldermen met yesterday to discuss a modified proposal that would have raised the city’s minimum...
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The Idea That Would Not Die
Last month I talked with a restaurant owner who told me that a sizeable increase in Saint Louis’ minimum wage...
Incentivizing Unemployment
Automation is likely to become more and more prevalent as time goes on, and the fast-food industry is likely to be...
A Canary in the Coal Mine?
Among the primary reasons for opposition to increasing the minimum wage is that doing so will result in job losses....
The Lake Loves Local Subsidies
It seems you win some, you lose some. Just as soon as I was about to pop open a bottle...
Employers Need Help-and They’ll Pay Too
There’s been a lot said about this new minimum wage proposal in Saint Louis. However, there is an interesting topic that gets...
Bad Data In, Bad Policy Out
The Public Policy Research Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis recently released the report, “An Equity Assessment of the...
You Cannot Be Serious!
You gotta love Los Angeles, but when I read stories about what officials there might be planning with their minimum wage increase,...
Show-Me Minutes
Listen to these all new audio clips from the Show-Me Institute about free-market ideas: Medicaid: Medicaid expansion sounds like free...
On a Scale of 1-10, It’s 15
Dollars an hour, that is. There is a continuing push in Saint Louis and other cities throughout the country to improve the...
Thomas Piketty and Mises’s ‘The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality’
As first appearing at Mises.org: Ludwig von Mises, a mentor to Friedrich Hayek and a major figure in economics in...
Do You Know The Pay In San Jose?
In late December 2013 and early January 2014, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) in Washington, D.C., conducted a telephone survey...
Let Market Guide Us To Prosperity In ’14
As first appearing in the January 7, 2014, Columbia Daily Tribune: Here are five market-oriented resolutions for a more prosperous...
Spring Internships With The Show-Me Institute
The Show-Me Institute is now accepting applications for our spring 2014 internship program. All the information you need about the...
I’ll Gladly Cost You Your Job On Tuesday For My Pay Raise Today
On Aug. 29, hundreds of fast-food workers in dozens of cities across the United States (including Saint Louis) walked off...
The $22 (An Hour) Question
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wonders why we do not pay workers a minimum wage of $22 an hour (hat tip: The...
Show-Me Institute Book Club: Join Us This Wednesday
Frederic Bastiat once wrote: Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an...
Special Interests Inhibiting Joplin’s Recovery?
Remember the May 22 tornado that ripped through Joplin? There were 161 people killed and more than 7,000 residences destroyed. The Associated Press has...
David Stokes Guest Hosting on the Marconi Machine This Afternoon
Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst David Stokes will be guest hosting on the Dr. Gina Loudon Show this afternoon from 4:00...
Neither Health Nor Wealth
Health economist John Goodman, who has been referred to as the father of the health savings account (HSA), published an...
