Big government is once again picking winners and losers. This time it is in the form of enforcement of county-issued […]
New research from the Tax Foundation corroborates what Show-Me Institute analysts have been writing for years—our transportation funding desperately needs […]
Dr. Susan Pendergrass and Patrick Ishmael discuss the current state of the communist movement in St. Louis with Kim McGrath […]
One fascinating result of the COVID-19 school shutdown is that parents have taken their children’s education into their own hands. […]
On September 10, 2020, the Show-Me Institute hosted a virtual town hall featuring Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl. Brian discussed the […]
Government handouts can be a slippery slope for some developers—once they get one, they just ask for more and more. […]
There was an interesting story from KMOX this week profiling a family who chose a parochial school this year due […]
Ninety-four thousand is an absurdly large number. Can you imagine doing something 94,000 times? Well, Missouri tells us what we […]
Listen Here Read Chris’s full report: A Plan to Make Medicaid Fair, Focused, and Accountable Chris Pope is a senior […]
Earlier this month, Missouri voters decided it was time for the state to expand Medicaid. Our state’s elected officials now […]
For many Missouri students, the much-anticipated start of the school year has been a bust. Thousands of parents who were […]
What is school choice? Many believe it’s a way to get disadvantaged children out of terrible schools. But in 2020, […]
The Missouri Renewable Energy Standard requires that at least 15 percent of Missouri’s electricity from state-regulated electric utilities (such as Ameren and […]
Last week, Stuart Butler of the Brookings Institution joined the Show-Me Institute Podcast to talk about his views on health care […]
In a recent paper, Michael D. Farren and Matthew D. Mitchell compare economic development incentive decisions by two states to the […]
And so it begins. School districts are announcing their plans for how they will reopen, and the protests have begun. Parents in Rockwood, Missouri […]
This week, my colleague Susan Pendergrass and I had the opportunity to sit down for a podcast with Stuart Butler, […]
When it was clear last spring that schools would not be reopening for the remainder of the school year, schools […]
Back in December 2018, the Show-Me Institute published TIF-for-Tat: The Relationship Between Political Contributions and Tax-increment Financing Awards. A new nationwide […]
