MOScout Sunday6: Nike Jobs - STEM Wages - Fed $$$ in MO Budget - KC Apartment Conversions and more…
1. Tax burden, by state.
Source: Visual Capitialist.
2. Federal funding as a portion of state budget, by state. The article focuses on West Viginia, but Missouri was (this is 2022 numbers) higher.
Source: Reuters.
3. Kansas City leading office-to-apartment conversions.
Source: Axios.
4. Foreigners’ US holdings, equity and debt.
Source: Apollo.
5. Time to “reshore” the shoe industry? (From its founding, Nike has always produced its abroad).
Source: Bloomberg.
6. Or, instead of chasing last century’s industries, we educate our workforce to participate in this century’s growth industries. “Of the 124 STEM occupations in Missouri, only 12 have an average wage below the state wage.”
