Social Security, Tax Cuts, and the Future of Retirement with Andrew Biggs
In this episode, Susan Pendergrass speaks with Andrew G. Biggs, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), about the...
Debt Ceiling Deal Q&A
After a whirlwind period of tense negotiations, the House of Representatives and White House agreed this week on raising the...
We Could Give Teachers a Ten Percent Raise Next Year
In a recent op-ed, I asked, “Why do our best superintendents always leave?” The answer was obvious—the pension system. After...
Viral Facebook Post about Missouri Teacher Pension Bill Is Filled with Falsehoods
In recent days, some Missouri teachers have been spreading a viral Facebook post that makes a number of inaccurate assertions....
Innovation Brings Hope for Teacher Pensions
The city teacher retirement plans in Missouri are in trouble. There’s a solid chance that the Kansas City Public Schools...
How Much Are Kansas City Teachers Willing to Pay for their Pension?
As I wrote in my last blog post, a report authorized by the Kansas City Public School Retirement System (KCPSRS)...
Want Better Teachers In High-Need Schools? Fix Pensions
What if instead of busing students from failing school districts to accredited ones, we bused great teachers from accredited schools...
Current Teacher Pension Systems Impose A “Tariff” On Labor
As first appearing in TeacherPensions.org on 25 Feb, 2014, and Education Next on 26 Feb, 2014: In Missouri, students in...
Government: No Costs, All Benefits
Government has no costs — only benefits — according to several professors in economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City,...
Health Care Reform Another Step in Decline of Our Economic Freedom
The passage and signing of the president’s massive health care reform legislation are the latest chapters in the socialization of...
Will Future Health Care Look Like Canada’s or Britain’s?
A shorter version of this article first appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. Commentators in the current health care...
“Say It Ain’t So, Claire, Say It Ain’t So”
The headline of this Missourinet post really got me riled up, but the body of the report calmed me down...
News for People on Unemployment
A note sent into andrewsullivan.com criticizing people on unemployment set off a number of angry responses. This relates closely to...
Crucial Tax Cuts, a la Newt
Yesterday morning, I (along with a number of other Show-Me Institute staffers) attended a talk by Newt Gingrich, hosted by...
The State’s Blind Pension Fund
The Springfield News-Leader and the AP have a story about a recent lawsuit by a group of blind citizens who...
Earmark Reform Hot Off the Presses
I have praised Sen. Claire McCaskill several times here for her refusal to use earmarks for pork barrel projects. Today, Dave...
Would You Like a Comfortable Retirement With That?
MSNBC has a nice article — with a real focus on St. Louis, no less — about the very generous...
Eric Mink Writes About Risk (the Experience, Not the Board Game)
I enjoy closely reading and analyzing Eric Mink’s columns in the Post-Dispatch, but because he primarily writes about national or...
Governments Should Act Like They Are in a Fiscal Crisis All the Time
There is an excellent story in today’s Post-Dispatch about how various local governments are reacting to the nation’s ongoing fiscal difficulties....
Berkeley Bob on Health Care
There is an op-ed in this morning’s Wall Street Journal by Robert Reich — President Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor...
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