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The Missouri Budget Project’s “Medicaid in Missouri: 2017 Chartbook” illustrates the basics of Medicaid in our state, including who is covered, how it is financed, and how the health care services impact Missourians. Download the PDF Version   Read More

Download the PDF Due to a substantial decline in corporate income tax revenue, Missouri will likely need to cut public services by an additional $200 to $250 million before the end of the fiscal year in June. These cuts are on top of the almost $200 million already restricted for Read More

Download Full Policy Framework (PDF) Missourians work hard every day to provide a better life for their families. In small towns, suburban neighborhoods, and urban centers across the state, many families are struggling to make ends meet. Some are rushing to get kids to school Read More

Download the PDF Version Although Missouri struggles every year to adequately fund our schools, roads, and other services that provide the foundation for our state’s economic growth, it offers some of the most generous tax benefits in the nation to corporations. For example, Read More

Voters will decide on several tax issues on the November ballot. MBP’s positions are as follows. More information on each issue is below. MBP supports: Amendment 1 – Parks, Soil, & Water Sales Tax Amendment 3 – Cigarette Tax Increase for Early Education Read More

Statement from Amy Blouin, Missouri Budget Project Executive Director More than one in five Missouri kids are growing up in families that can’t afford the basics necessary for a good start to life because they make so little. Although poverty slightly declined since the previous Read More

Statement from Amy Blouin, Missouri Budget Project Executive Director New census data indicate that hundreds of thousands of Missourians still can’t get the health care they need to be healthy, productive members of their communities. About one in every ten, or 583,000 Read More

A stunning state revenue collapse in the final days of the last fiscal year (FY2016, which ended on June 30th) may continue to hamper Missouri’s ability to meet the educational, health, and other needs of Missourians. Decreased revenue in the month of June prompted the Governor Read More

Click here for a PDF copy  of the MBP press release For Immediate Release, July 5, 2016 Final state general revenue numbers for fiscal year 2016 show that Missouri simply cannot afford tax cuts passed by the legislature in 2014. While poor revenue growth has put off the pain of Read More

Missouri’s annual operating budget is more than a set of numbers. In its funding for education, health care, and other services that serve as a foundation for Missouri families and our economy to thrive, the budget reflects the priorities of our state. Although lawmakers Read More