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Missouri Budget Project
St. Louis, Missouri ·Missouri Budget Project improves the quality of life for all Missourians by informing public policy decisions through objective research and analysis of state budget, tax and economic issues.
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Missouri Network publications
Race in the Heartland: Equity, Opportunity, and Public Policy in the Midwest
- October 10, 2019
- Common Good Iowa
- Colin Gordon
A half-century removed from the high-tide of the civil rights movement, progress on racial equity has slowed or stalled on many fronts. Nowhere is this more starkly evident than in the […]
City governments are raising standards for working people—and state legislators are lowering them back down
- August 12, 2017
- Economic Policy Institute
- Marni von Wilpert
On August 28, 2017, low-wage workers in St. Louis, Missouri, became the latest victims of state preemption laws. “Preemption” in this context refers to a situation in which a state […]
Missouri’s new preemption law cheats 38,000 workers out of a raise
- July 17, 2017
- Economic Policy Institute
- Marni von Wilpert
Minimum wage workers in St. Louis just had a taste of what life might be like with a raise, only to have it taken back by the Missouri state legislature. […]
Do Immigrants Present an Untapped Opportunity to Revitalize Communities?
- October 19, 2016
- Fiscal Policy Institute
- David Dyssegaard Kallick, and Steve Tobocman
As many cities across the nation experience population decline and an increase in vacant and distressed property, there is a need for economic and housing revitalization. New research from Welcoming Economies […]
Keeping DREAMers Out of College: Missouri Makes a Costly Mistake
- April 19, 2016
- Fiscal Policy Institute
- David Dyssegaard Kallick
Missouri’s appropriations bill for higher education includes instructions that would leave immigrants who have been granted deferred action in the position of having to pay a much higher tuition rate […]
High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development
- December 17, 2015
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg
In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems […]