Business Journal Article About Our Pension Study

State and Local Government | November 24, 2008

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 minute

The St. Louis Business Journal has an online story about the study of Missouri’s public pensions that the Show-Me Institute released last week. (You can also find the article via the Kansas City Business Journal‘s site.)

The study was written by Richard C. Dreyfus of Pennsylvania, who has alerted us to the dangers of underfunding public pensions, and of failing to alter their provisions in a way that would move them toward an increased level of defined contributions over time. And I just know that as soon as you read the word “danger,” you thought there was going to be a Jaws reference. …

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David Stokes

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.

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