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...
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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...
