Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

Gov. Greitens signed Executive Order 17-09 on March 13, 2017, giving state employees within departments and agencies of the executive branch up to six weeks of parental leave following the birth or adoption of a child.  Primary caregivers who are qualified state employees may receive six weeks of paid family leave and secondary caregivers shall receive three weeks of paid family leave, at 100 percent of regular salary.

Registration is open for the Ethics, Money & Politics Conference held on March 24, 2017.

It runs from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located in the Millennium Student Center Century Rooms at the University of Missouri -St. Louis Campus.

In honor of Women’s History Month, Wendy Doyle joined Scott Faughn on This Week in Missouri Politics to talk about the wage gap, occupational licensing, and paid leave for women in Missouri.

Doyle is the CEO of the Women’s Foundation, an organization that has worked closely with the IPP to study, analyze and develop policy recommendations for issues that women in Missouri face.

“You have an interesting process, you do studies and identify problems, and then you propose policy solutions to fix those problems,” Faughan said.

IPP analysts, Kristi Ressel and Zach Buckler, attended the 43rd Annual Legislative Day, held in the third floor Rotunda of the Capitol building in Jefferson City yesterday. It was an opportunity for members of the University of Missouri community to meet and greet legislators and showcase MU research and service projects which improve the lives of Missourians. The event was well attended and ran from 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM, kicking off with the MAA & MU Extension Legislator Breakfast.

Public opinion researchers depend on certain questions as essential public opinion barometers, like presidential job approval or Bud Roper’s right-direction/wrong-track measure. Perhaps no other question is as often used to determine what is foremost in the minds of the public than the open-ended “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?” Respondents offer their concerns in their own words, unaffected by potential bias introduced by limited lists of answers.

Assistant Professors Sheena Greitens (Political Science) and Harrison Kim (History) worked for more than a year to coordinate resources across campus and create the Institute for Korean Studies, which formally launched on February 9.

Professor Jay Dow has a new book, Electing the House, now available for pre-order.

More here: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-2410-2.html

Lawmakers are considering the merits of Paid Family Leave for state workers in Missouri after a recent study by the Women’s Foundation and the Institute of Public Policy found that paid leave policies offer a  number of benefits aside from reducing reliance on public assistance in the year following a child’s birth.