The Show-Me Institute is now accepting applications for our spring 2014 internship program. All the information you need about the internship is available here. Please submit the required application by Dec. 6. The spring intern positions can be full- or part-time, and the jobs pay $10 per hour. You will note that is above the minimum wage, because we believe in the power of markets, not government mandates. Which basically sums up your entire internship program experience quite nicely.
About the Author
David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.
