Are Missouri’s Public Schools Ready for Declining Enrollment?
The fertility rate—the average number of children a woman will have over her lifetime—has been falling steadily in the United...
An Undeniable Trend
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) performs an annual forecast of education data that includes enrollment projections of students...
Missouri Public Education in Four Graphs
I had a professor in college who was very good at getting his points across by waving his hands in...
The St. Louis County Budget
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently ran an article on St. Louis County’s budget situation that was lacking, in my opinion....
The Devil Is Certainly in the Details
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) contains the latest federal stimulus package for public education, of which Missouri is set to...
How Are We Recovering? (Part 3)
Now that we’ve discussed unemployment insurance (UI) in general and in connection with the Great Recession, it’s time to analyze...
How Are We Recovering (Part 2)
As discussed in my previous post, our economy seems to be recovering quickly relative to other recessions, but employers are...
How Are We Recovering? (Part 1)
The economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been much more rapid and robust than people initially predicted. It’s possible...
Some Promising Numbers About Millennials in Kansas City. Maybe.
William Frey of the Brookings Institution just published a report entitled “How migration of millennials and seniors has shifted...
How and Why Prop A Will Boost Jobs and Growth
Outside of Missouri, the most closely watched contest in the Aug. 7 elections here will not be any of the...
Socialism: The Slouching Beast on our Campuses
Socialism has come a long way since 1917. Socialist regimes ruled half the world—at a terrible cost—during the Cold War....
Employment and Payrolls in Missouri Lag Nation
Since the end of the Great Recession in 2009, the Missouri economy has recovered slowly relative to the nation as...
Missouri’s Weak Employment Mirrors Weak Economic Growth
Last week I posted a comparison of output in Missouri to that of the United States. The bottom line is...
Missouri’s Recent Slow Growth Continues Trend
Recently released data on the output of goods and services showed that Missouri’s economy barely grew in 2015. While the...
Learning from Our Mistakes: A Funding Formula Cap
In my youth, I made some irresponsible financial decisions. The first thing I purchased on a credit card was a...
So Long, Farewell . . .
Every year since 1993, Atlas Van Lines has analyzed interstate moving patterns among U.S. households. Their Migration Patterns report shows...
More Evidence on the Negative Effects of the Minimum Wage
University of California–San Diego economist Jeffrey Clemens’s recently published analysis once again indicates that raising the minimum wage has detrimental effects...
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 Good and Not-So-Good News from Missouri’s Labor Market
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released its report on state employment (see Table 5) allowing us to see how...
More On the Minimum Wage
To a lot of people, increasing the minimum wage makes sense. Honestly, who doesn’t want low-income workers to make more...
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