Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

Authors: Emmie Harcourt – Graduate Research Assistant & Kristi Ressel – Senior Research Analyst

Author: Kristi Ressel, MPH – Senior Research Analyst  

Author: Beau Underwood, MPP, MDiv – IPP GRA

IPP's Associate Director of Operations, Emily Johnson, appeared as a panelist at the Governor's Conference on Economic Development to speak about occupational licensing reform in Missouri. IPP has contributed new research to update 2016 data on occupational licensing and women in Missouri. Additionally, the new report, Occupational Licensing and Women in Missouri Report Update, examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Missouri's women. Both reports were commissioned by United WE, formerly the Women's Foundation.

Billed by the host of the NCSL podcast “The Inside Storey” Tim Storey as the person who “may know more about state legislatures and their history than anyone,” Truman School Professor Peverill Squire recently co-hosted an episode of Storey’s podcast entitled “A Walk Through the History of Legislatures.”

Seventeen students from Truman School’s Mizzou Model UN recently traveled to Chicago to  participate in the American Model United Nations conference and won four awards, more than any other school in the competition.

The Mizzou Model UN had two delegations competing in Chicago, as Honduras and Palestine and took home individual awards for:

On September 29, Truman School Professor and Director Dr. Lael Keiser had the pleasure of attending the unveiling of the Harry S. Truman statue in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Placement of the statue was the culmination of a fundraising effort by the Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri. During the ceremony, Truman’s oldest grandson Clifton Truman Daniel, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) and U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), among others, highlighted several of President Truman’s many accomplishments.  

IPP’s Emily Johnson discussed the benefits to both employers and employees and the disparities of access to paid family leave in Missouri on July 14, 2022, in an interview on KKFI 90.1 FM with Judy Ancel.  Public interest in paid family leave came to the forefront during the pandemic when many families were faced with illness and wage loss.  IPP was contracted by MFH late last year to conduct research on the issue, which will be forthcoming in a series of briefs due in September.