Understanding the One Big Beautiful Bill with Elias Tsapelas
Susan Pendergrass is joined by Elias Tsapelas, director of state budget and fiscal policy at the Show-Me Institute, to break...
Yes, We Should Privatize the Post Office
The white whale of government privatization in Missouri is Springfield’s City Utilities, a municipal utility behemoth that should be broken...
A Policy That Could Help Lower Missouri Electric Bills
While summer is actually my favorite time of the year, it’s also hard on my wallet. As air conditioning use...
Missouri Needs Education Leadership Now More Than Ever
The past spring, much of Missouri turned into an education desert of homework packets, learning “opportunities,” and optional enrichment suggestions...
2018 Blueprint: Income Tax Reform
THE PROBLEM: Missouri’s economy has been stalled for almost two decades, as startup growth has slowed and entrepreneurs and taxpayers...
2018 Blueprint: Open Collective Bargaining
THE PROBLEM: Under current Sunshine Law in Missouri, government bodies may close meetings, records, and votes relating to contract negotiations...
2018 Blueprint: Public Pension Reform
THE PROBLEM: Defined benefit (DB) pension plans promise employees annual payments for life upon retirement, but if a public plan...
Almost 47th
Missouri’s economy has been in the slow lane for decades. Unfortunately, unless things change, Missourians will likely be left behind...
About That New Home Addition . . .
Before adding a room onto your house, wouldn’t you ask yourself if the expected benefit of the addition will be...
It Could Be Worse. Not Much Worse, but It Could Be Worse.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently released data on real GDP for all 50 states. Since Missouri’s growth in recent...
Report: Saint Louis, Kansas City *Not* Among Most Cost-Friendly Cities for Business
Recently, the Post-Dispatch prominently published an article claiming that, “St. Louis is among the top 10 most cost-friendly cities to...
New Study Shows Benefits of Union Transparency
A new study from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy looks at the ways private-sector unions disclose financial information in...
Missouri’s Teacher Equity Plan Draft Misses the Mark
Is a teacher with a master’s degree in biology and several years of research experience unqualified to teach high school...
Show-Me Now! Missouri’s Economic Growth is in the Cellar
Show-Me Institute Chief Economist Joseph Haslag, Ph.D., notes the declining economic growth in Missouri compared to the rest of the...
Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry Guilty of “Stealing” Missouri Jobs?
As appearing in the Springfield News-Leader on October 23, 2013: If “stealing jobs” were as bad as — and essentially...
Will Missouri Taxpayers Have To Bail Out Public Pensions?
A recent New York Times article discusses something we have talked about on Show-Me Daily: the unrealistically rosy forecasts of...
Attorney General Chris Koster Should Join the Multistate Health Care Lawsuit in Florida
When they passed Proposition C last August, Missourians demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to the federal health care reform law. They...
Healthier Smiles, One Dental Therapist at a Time
Good news for deregulation! The W.K. Kellogg Institute released a study yesterday evaluating the success of the Alaskan dental therapist...
Try, Try, Try Again? Not Always a Good Idea
The Kansas City School District, in another effort to reform lagging schools, plans to move students into an ungraded primary...
Growth by State
Many variables affect a state’s economic growth, including public policy, natural resources, geographic location, business centers, etc. The large number of contributing...
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