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For Immediate Release: May 5, 2020Contact: Traci Gleason Missouri Representatives are discussing legislation that would cut off access to healthcare while simultaneously costing the state more than $200 million in additional General Revenue. The advancement of this legislation is Read More

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which was signed into law on March 27th, will provide over $2 trillion to counteract economic declines related to the Coronavirus pandemic. In addition to economic relief directed towards individuals, families, small Read More

The health and economic effects of the Coronavirus will require an aggressive state and local policy response to help families make ends meet and avoid disastrous economic consequences. It is critical for Missouri to act in tandem with federal responses in order to cushion the Read More

Updated February 1, 2023 with data from the 2020 tax year. The following map shows the percent of households eligible for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit by County and by Missouri State Senate and State House districts. Read More

While counterintuitive, Medicaid expansion would result in more than $100 million in state general revenue savings and new revenue for the state of Missouri. This net increase in the general revenue budget would make funds available that could be used for other priorities, Read More

Tax Changes Leave State Unable to Meet Inflationary Costs Recently announced growth in Missouri’s state general revenue collections may be misleading because the growth is based on a comparison to very weak collections in the prior year. Taking a more comprehensive view shows Read More

For Immediate Release: October 30, 2019 Georgetown University Report Finds Number of Uninsured Missouri Children Up Nearly 17 Percent Analysis shows Missouri losing significant ground in covering kids The number of uninsured children increased nationally by more than 400,000 Read More

Missouri has experienced one of the steepest drops in Medicaid enrollment in the country. Although Medicaid is critical to the health of low-wage families and children, many Missouri families have lost their coverage in recent months, despite still being eligible. By allowing Read More

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) play an important role in Missouri’s health care coverage. Learn more about who qualifies for Medicaid coverage, how it is financed, and how Medicaid impacts Missourians’ health in the 2019 Chartbook. Read More

PDF Version of Comments Submitted by MO Organizations re Proposed Change to Federal Poverty Level Calculation – June 2019 June 20, 2019   Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician Office of Management and Budget Statistical_Directives@omb.eop.gov Re: Directive No. 14   Read More