Virtual Town Hall – The National Debt Crisis with Brian Riedl
On September 10, 2020, the Show-Me Institute hosted a virtual town hall featuring Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl. Brian discussed the...
SMI Podcast: Chris Pope – A New Plan for Medicaid
Listen Here Read Chris’s full report: A Plan to Make Medicaid Fair, Focused, and Accountable Chris Pope is a senior...
2018: A Bad Year for Government-failure Deniers
Are you a government-failure denier – someone who believes that the government that governs best is one that overflows with...
2018: A Bad Year for Government-failure Deniers
Are you a government-failure denier – someone who believes that the government that governs best is one that overflows with...
Want Better Hotels? Then Support a Free and Open Market
One accomplished hotelier believes that “Airbnb is a mortal threat to the U.S. hotel industry. The only way you can...
Show-Me Institute Looks Ahead in Wall Street Journal Article
In an article last week about the impact of the recent election on state policy, The Wall Street Journal came...
“But for those willing to recognize the simple lessons of history, slow growth is not hard to diagnose or to cure.”
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by John Cochrane, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, that...
ER Visits Spike With Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
I’ve written at length about the negative effects of expanding a broken Medicaid program under Obamacare. Poor health outcomes and...
Pensions Are Taking on Riskier Investments and Putting Retirees’ Money In Jeopardy
A year ago, the Show-Me Institute released “Betting on the Big Returns: How Missouri Teacher Pension Plans Have Shifted to...
Does It Matter What a Lost Job Would Have Paid?
In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, economist David Neumark challenges some of the myths about the minimum wage. From...
University of Chicago: An Example for Mizzou on Free Speech
Over the past few weeks, the University of Missouri has been turned upside down by protests that, so far, have...
Killing the Golden Goose: How Walmart’s Left-Wing Critics Destroy Job Creation
Under three different CEOs, Wal-Mart has done all kinds of somersaults to appease left-wing critics. In 2005, Lee Scott set...
Opt Out? Or Opt In to Other Accountability Measures
The release of the scores from the 2015 MAP test a few weeks ago has brought with it new discussion...
Choosing a Major, Picking a Winner
As first appearing in the Southeast Missourian: Several decades ago, earning a college degree—almost any college degree—was all it took...
Seeded With Tax Cuts, Kansas Harvests the Benefits
As first appearing in the Wall Street Journal: Liberals love to hate Sam Brownback, and for good reason. The Kansas...
In Support of An Outside Audit of Missouri’s Medicaid Program
Last month we wrote about a state audit of the St. Joseph School District that turned up tens of millions of...
The Myth of the Urban Millennial
The debate over what millennials want continues to rage in Kansas City and elsewhere. City leaders are spending gobs of...
What Uber and School Choice Have in Common: In Missouri
Late last month, founding president and chief operating officer of the Children’s Scholarship Fund James Courtovich wrote an op-ed in...
Sweetness And Power & Light
I want to follow up briefly on the pieces recently published in The American Spectator and here on the blog about...
The Re-Repackaging Of ‘Obamacaid’ In Missouri
One would think that at this point, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would be an unwelcome topic in the Missouri...
