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Recommendations for a More Prosperous Missouri: Invest in Missouri

Investing in Missouri: Creating a Better Future for Our Families   By enacting these two measures, Missouri’s lawmakers could dramatically strengthen state services and lay the foundation for a more prosperous Missouri in 2016.   Expand Medicaid Eligibility to Improve the
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Investing in Healthy Families

Investing in Healthy Families Download PDF of Investing in Healthy Families A healthy Missouri means all Missouri families can get the health care they need. That sickness or chronic illnesses are caught early, rather than waiting for an emergency to hit. That employees can stay
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Investing in Our Students: K-12 Education

Investing in Our Students’ Futures  Download the PDF of Investing in Our Students Missourians want to give our children the best possible chance at success. We want our children to have quality public schools that start them off right towards pursuing their dreams.
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Investing in a Strong Start: Early Education

Investing in a Strong Start Download PDF of Investing in a Strong Start All Missouri children should start school ready to learn so they have the best possible shot at success. Quality early care and education foster the development of cognitive and social skills that are
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Investing in Missouri: Creating a Better Future for Our Families

All Missourians want the best for our families. A bright future for our children, security for our seniors, and an economic environment where working hard means you can get ahead. But this environment doesn’t just happen. For our state to be a place where Missouri families, small
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Join Us for MBP’s Invest in MO Forums

The Missouri Budget Project has developed a series of analyses that collectively propose a “policy game plan” for a more prosperous future for all Missourians. The analyses evaluate Missouri’s current investments in critical public services, how those investments have been
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Senate Cuts Harmful to Vulnerable Missourians

Senate Cuts Harmful to Vulnerable Missourians Lawmakers Should Reject Cuts in Conference Last week, the Senate approved a FY 2016 budget that would cut funding for services to some of Missouri’s most vulnerable populations, such as foster children, seniors, and persons with
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General Revenue Growth Insufficient for Current Budget

This week the Missouri Office of Administration released the details of the state’s general revenue tax collections in February and for the fiscal year from July 1 through February. As of the end of February, the amount of revenue for the year to date has grown by 4.9 percent
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State Earned Income Tax Credit Would Benefit Missouri

Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) encourage work, enhance take-home pay, improve health & economic outcomes, and have lasting benefits. Proposals to create a state-level EITC would build on these benefits of the federal EITC for more than 500,000 Missouri families. Click here
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Missouri Budget 101

Each day, every Missourian is affected by the General Assembly’s budget decisions – when you visit your local hospital, you child goes to school, or you just drive. The state constitution requires the budget be balanced, and priorities must be weighed against each
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