Business Climate

Podcast: Raises for Teachers, Billions for Meta, and a New Stadium for the Chiefs

Patrick Ishmael, Susan Pendergrass and Elias Tsapelas join Zach Lawhorn to discuss the Missouri budget, a massive tax incentive deal in KC, the possibility of the Chiefs moving to Kansas, […]

Podcast: The Roaring 2020s with Mark P. Mills

Susan Pendergrass speaks with Mark P. Mills , a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Listen […]

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State Business Tax Climate Ranking

Missouri ranks 13th in the Tax Foundation’s “2022 State Business Tax Climate Index,” down two spots from last year. This publication grades how well states structure their tax systems and […]

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Joplin Students Learn About Food Trucks and (Perhaps) Government Regulations

Students in a Joplin-area high school recently engaged in the school’s annual “Food Truck Competition.” In this event, student teams design miniature food trucks, construct a sample menu, and prepare […]

You Will Accept This Welfare Check Whether You Want It or Not

The Section 8 housing voucher program is a well-known federal program that subsidizes rental payments for low-income households. It is one of many government welfare programs. For people like me, […]

End of the Track for the Trolley, Election Preview and DST Ends Next Sunday

Corianna Baier, Jakob Puckett, and David Stokes join Zach Lawhorn to discuss the East-West Gateway Council of Governments’ decision to reject a federal grant to fund The Loop Trolley, the […]

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