Surprising Change in Medicaid Enrollment
Medicaid enrollment was down 0.6 percent nationwide in 2018, but in Missouri it decreased at a much higher rate of...
Should Missouri End Some of Its Vehicle Inspections? Maybe
Vehicle maintenance isn’t typically the sexiest legislative topic, but one proposal offered in the Missouri House may make it hot...
Low-Income Housing Tax Credits Are Being Reformed? Not So Fast
Last week, the Missouri Senate gave preliminary approval to a plan that supposedly “reforms” the state’s low-income housing tax credit...
The Public Interest Should Trump the Interests of City Bureaucrats-and It Shouldn’t Be Close
When Phil Oehlerking and I started the Municipal Checkbook Project two years ago, we thought that the bulk of our...
Criminal Justice Reform Getting Attention in Missouri
The Governor laid out a number of important priorities in his State of the State address, which my colleague Scott...
Prison Consolidation a Smart Step Toward Better Government
One of the most interesting announcements that the governor made at his State of the State speech last month was...
School Choice Cost Savings Isn’t Magic, It’s Math!
One of the great things about math is it often doesn’t need much defense. The numbers can speak for themselves....
Cyclical Poverty Is a Problem in Missouri-What Can Be Done About It?
Imagine the Game of Life played under different rules—with everyone randomly assigned at birth to one of two paths. One...
Support for Teachers? Or Just Some Teachers?
Want to lose the interest of a room quickly? Bring up pensions. In the 1980s, most private-sector employees were in...
Will There Be a Cease-fire in Kansas City’s Economic “Border War”?
That’s the billion-dollar question that legislators on both sides of State Line Road are asking themselves. Show-Me Institute researchers have...
Go On Take Your Money and Run
Some time ago I relied on the song “I’d Love to Change the World” by Ten Years After to tell...
Why the “Green New Deal” Will Not Fly in Missouri
How well prepared are different players in Missouri’s highly diversified economy to join the “Green New Deal” proposed by Congresswoman...
Giving Ex-Offenders a Fresh Start When Looking For a Job: Part One
High recidivism, or the rate at which ex-offenders return to prison, is a problem in Missouri and a major factor...
Giving Ex-Offenders a Fresh Start When Looking for a Job: Part Two
As researchers at the Show-Me Institute have pointed out before, occupational licensing can be burdensome for workers and consumers in...
New York Shouldn’t Have Offered Amazon $3 Billion. No One Should Have.
This week Amazon announced that it was scrapping its plan to establish a “second headquarters” in New York. The company’s...
ESAs Could Give Educational Options to Low-Income Gifted Students
If a child begins the school year behind his peers, we want the school to help him catch up. But...
So…What Is an Education Savings Account?
Among the most innovative and specialized school choice options not yet available in Missouri are education savings accounts (ESAs), which...
End the Cronyism: Repeal Certificate of Need in Missouri
The dance card for health care reforms in Missouri is starting to fill up. Last week the state released a...
2019 Legislative Priorities Generally Lining Up with Market Reforms
The Missouri House and Senate may have only just begun their legislative years, yet both chambers appear to be setting...
Failure Is Not an Option for Missouri School Districts-but Is That a Good Thing?
Imagine that you’re a professor at a large university and this spring you’re teaching one of the big freshman seminar...
