Audrey Spalding

Bio

Audrey Spalding is a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute, a think tank in St. Louis that studies Missouri public policy.

Have OWS, Auto Bailouts, Goldman Sachs, and Solyndra Shown Capitalism is Unjust?
By Audrey Spalding
Capitalism has been getting a bad reputation lately. The Occupy Wall Street movement showed that many people are upset with the outsize benefits and preferential treatment corporations have received. The auto bailouts, the enormous amount of cash…
The U.S. Education System Wrongly Penalizes Good Teachers, Won't Fire Bad Teachers
By Audrey Spalding
Last week, media outlets hailed a jobs report that showed the unemployment rate had fallen to its lowest point in nearly three years. And yet, the unemployment rate for recent graduates remains unacceptably high, at 14%. I graduated from college as…