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Missouri Tax Credits
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
Missouri's first tax credit was authorized in 1973 and many more have been adopted in the following years. Some of these programs have expired or have been eliminated from the statutes; however, the majority of the programs ...
Term Limits & Tenure in the Missouri General Assembly (2007)
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
The following report examines tenure and turnover in the Missouri General Assembly from just before term limits took effect through the election of 2006. The 2002 election was the fi rst since the decennial redistricting, ...
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
(2006-02)
theorists give widely divergent answers to these questions. This paper reviews the major approaches to teaching entrepreneurship, primarily at the undergraduate level, and relates them to economic theories of entrepreneurship. Surprisingly, we find little...
Spatial Variations in Factors Affecting Poverty
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
There is abundant research that focuses on the causes and consequences of poverty in
rural areas, and on the factors that ameliorate rural poverty. While a comprehensive review of this literature is not possible in this ...
Impact of Missouri's E10 Standard on Consumer Fuel Usage, Public Health, & the Environment*
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
On January 1, 2008, the Missouri Renewable Fuel Standard Act (RFSA) became effective; mandating that all gasoline sold in the state contain 10% ethanol. The fuel with 90% gas and 10% ethanol is commonly referred to as ...
Fringe Benefits: There is More to Compensation than a Teacher's Salary
(Education Next, 2003)
Each year, the two national teacher unions, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), release their surveys of public school teacher salaries across the nation, and each year they take advantage...
Administrative Rules Procedure
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
their initial publication....
Administrative Rules Procedure 2004
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
their initial publication....
Fiscal Federalism and Tax Effort in the American States
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
In the 25 years following the Second World
War, state governments doubled the amount
of inflation adjusted revenue that they
collected in taxes. That represented a growth
rate more than double that of the federal
government ...
Reducing Alcohol-Related Traffic Accidents through Server Training
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Alcohol misuse is a serious problem plaguing the United States as well as Missouri. The
largest problems stemming from alcohol misuse are impaired driving, underage drinking, and binge drinking. The Harvard School of Public Health lists “property...
Combined Sewer Overflows: A Threat to Water Quality in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
Clean water is essential to the health and well being of humans and their environment. Pollution threatens surface waters and may make them unsafe for human use. Much of the pollution is from man made sources and, by law, ...
Policy Options for Addressing Childhood Obesity in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
The prevalence of overweight children has increased threefold nationwide, from 5.7% to 18% between 1980 and 2004.1 The current percentage of overweight children in Missouri is greater than the national average. These trends ...
Transportation Equity Act: Adopting a Statewide Open Container Law in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 1,232 fatal vehicle crashes occurredin 2003 on Missouri's highways. Approximately 41 percent of these fatalities involved alcohol. These incidents ...
Electronic Commerce, Sales Tax, & the Implications for Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
The internet is an ever-growing source of information, services, products, communication, and income for millions of people around the world. With these growing capabilities comes the issue of how to tax goods and services ...
Childcare Subsidies in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
Nationwide, 70.5% of women with children were in the labor force in 2006. Three out of four working mothers work more than 30 hours per week, and over 90 percent of their families use some kind of child care. Access to ...
K-12 Public School Finance in Missouri: An Overview
(Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2006)
The level and distribution of spending for public K-12 education remains a contentious matter of policy in many states because of increasing expectations for school performance and widespread school finance litigation. In this paper, the authors...
Domestic Violence Victim's Services — A Preliminary Analysis
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The purpose of this brief is to provide an overview of domestic violence in Missouri and discuss how well domestic violence records are tracked in the justice system. This note compares how Missouri's records on domestic ...
Missouri State and Local Open Container Laws
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
In 1998, Congress and the President passed the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), which aimed to encourage states to enact and enforce an open container law that prohibits possession of any open ...
Balancing the numbers
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2009)
Campus leaders are planning carefully to maintain academic quality during tough economic times....
The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard
(Blackwell, 2007-04)
Even the most passionate defenders of free trade, such as Mises and Rothbard, claim that trade cannot occur under conditions of strict homogeneity of land, labor, and capital. We show that specialization, trade, and the ...