Three Strikes?
Major League Baseball’s Opening Day is approaching so let me start with a baseball analogy. In the Triple Crown of...
The Subsidization and Consequent Overconsumption of Education
In the The Chronicle of Higher Education, Richard Vedder recently wrote that the United States may be over-investing in education....
“If You Can’t Be a Good Example, Then You’ll Just Have to Serve as a Horrible Warning”
The Post-Dispatch recently published a letter to the editor that applauded the passage of the $150 million Ford Claycomo tax...
Metro St. Louis Approves Fiscal 2011 Budget, Making Work Harder to Find
The Metro Board of Commissioners approved the St. Louis regional public transit agency’s Fiscal 2011 operating budget of $232.4 million...
Fewer Missourians Employed in Movie Industry Than Before Film Tax Credits Began
Last month, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy published a press release stating that fewer people are now employed in...
Let a Thousand Schools Bloom
The New York Times ran an excellent article on Friday critiquing the idea that all students should attend college. A...
State and Local Government Employment and Payroll Data in Missouri Follows National Trend
This month, the Cato Institute published a bulletin titled “Employee Compensation in State and Local Governments,” in which the author...
Missouri’s Unemployment Compensation Problem
The Washington Post recently published an article that describes how states’ unemployment compensation funds are running dry in the recession....
Paul Krugman on Education Spending
Paul Krugman writes that public-school layoffs bode ill for America’s economy: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United...
Women in the Missouri Legislature
This article addresses the issue of women and discrimination in the General Assembly. It sounds like some women legislators have...
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