Ingram's Magazine: August 2026 and Destination Missouri 2026—Your Guide to Investing in Missouri
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Missouri’s real GDP reached $357.97 billion in 2025, up 1.3 percent from the year before and 22nd-largest among the states, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Professional and business services led all sectors at $51.6 billion, followed by real…
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Every state pitches itself as business-friendly. Missouri decided to prove it, in the most literal way a government can: by giving up tax revenue on the spot. Last year, Gov. Mike Kehoe signed House Bill 594, making Missouri the first…
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Every business owner in Missouri has heard some version of the workforce pitch: a labor pool of nearly 3 million, a low cost of living that stretches wages further, state programs ready to help recruit and train. All of that…
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For six matches this summer, Kansas City Stadium—Arrowhead under any other name—hosted the smallest market in the FIFA World Cup’s 16-city American footprint, and pulled it off like its bigger-city rivals. Visit KC projected roughly 650,000 visitors and $653 million…
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It’s the final day of April, 1926. Springfield businessman John T. Woodruff sends a telegram proposing the name for a new Chicago-to-Los Angeles highway: Route 66. One hundred years later, almost to the day, Springfield hosted the National Route 66…
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Interstate 70 remains the visible centerpiece of Missouri’s transportation spending, and 2026 is the year the $2.8 billion Improve I-70 program stopped being a plan and became a daily reality for anyone driving between St. Louis and Kansas City. As…
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Picture a family relocating to Kansas City or St. Louis from a coastal metro—the kind of move that used to be framed entirely around salary. What actually determines whether that family comes out ahead isn’t the offer letter. It’s everything…
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Far from the coastal spotlight, Missouri is orchestrating a high-stakes aerospace expansion that pairs a century of airframe building heritage with the most consequential defense program of the coming decades. For site selectors and executives weighing where to place aerospace…
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An outsider in a manufacturing firm may ask a simple question—Why Missouri?—and open the door to a conversation that has grown considerably more interesting over the past 16 months. What was once a case built on geography and workforce—still true,…
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Every quality-of-life story eventually reaches for the same list: parks, lakes, low housing costs, friendly neighborhoods. All true of Missouri, all worth saying. But the asset that’s hardest to buy back once it’s gone is time, and it’s the one…
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Two years after BJC HealthCare and Saint Luke’s Health System combined to form BJC Saint Luke’s, one of the largest non-profit health systems in the Midwest, the merger has settled into something closer to routine integration than headline news—shared service…
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The number every college president in the country has been watching finally arrived: 2025 marked the peak year for U.S. high school graduates, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, with the pipeline now in a projected multi-year…
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Housing affordability has moved from a personal-finance topic to a national political flashpoint, and for good reason: the gap between what median households earn and what median homes cost has been widening in market after market for years. Missouri sits…
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Kansas City and St. Louis remain the state’s twin anchors, and neither needs an introduction: St. Louis County alone hosts more than 800 companies, including more than a dozen on the Fortune 500 or 1000, while Kansas City’s bi-state rivalry…
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A hundred years of Route 66. Two hundred fifty years of America. And a state whose fingerprints show up in more of the nation’s story than most people realize. Some years lend themselves to a theme. This is one of…
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Looking for an affordable place to thrive, with big-city opportunities and small-town charm? Missouri delivers—whether you’re launching a business, raising a family, or just watching the state show up on your television this summer. From a tax code that’s the…
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Raghu Adiga, Liberty Hospital, Liberty A lower-middle-class upbringing in India taught Raghu Adiga two things at once: education is non-negotiable, and the point of that education is to contribute. His parents pushed both. Medicine, he decided, was the clearest way…
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