Earmarks: Missouri

Here are the earmarks identified for Missouri, which total $10,971,000. Check out the earmarks for your state and then call your congressman and ask if he or she sponsored any of your state's earmarks. If the answer is yes, ask why the congressman's name isn't on the earmark. If you recognize the institution designated to receive the earmarked tax dollars, call them and ask them what they intend to do with your money.

Then email us at info@examiner.com with the subject line "Earmarks" and tell us what you found out.

Amount City Description
$1,000,000 Joplin Freeman Health System, for facilities and equipment for a facility in McDonald County
$1,000,000 Sikeston Missouri Delta Medical Center for equipment
$750,000 Springfield Jordan Valley Community Health Center, for facilities and equipment
$650,000 Sedalia State Fair Community College for facilities and equipment for nursing and allied health professions education
$600,000 Springfield Ready to Learn, to develop a program for pre-kindergarten academic, reading readiness and social and emotional skill development for pre-school age children and their parents
$410,000 Columbia Boone Hospital Center, for facilities and equipment for mobile screening
$410,000 St. Louis Webster University for nursing and biological sciences education programs, which may include student financial assistance
$350,000 St. Louis Nurses for Newborns Foundation for program support
$350,000 Kansas City Samuel P. Rogers Health Center for facilities and equipment
$350,000 Cape Girardeau Southeast Missouri State University for equipment and training
$330,000 Greene County Greene County, for medical services provided in the Greene County Jail through a partnership with the Jordan Valley Community Health Center
$325,000 Kansas City P.E. 4 Life, to establish a P.E. Academy in North Mississippi
$320,000 Joplin Missouri's Southern State University for communications equipment
$300,000 St. Louis Missouri Botanical Garden for its math and science education project
$300,000 Farmington Parkland health Center for facilities and equipment
$300,000 Sikeston Missouri Bootheel Regional Consortium, for the Fatherhood First program
$300,000 Kansas City P.E. 4 Life, to expand P.E. program in the Titusville School District, PA across the state
$300,000 West Plains Missouri State University-West Plains for technology upgrades and programming at the Academic Support Center
$250,000 St. Louis Webster University, Old Post Office Campus, for workforce development programs
$250,000 Columbia Boys and Girls Town of Missouri, for educational equipment
$250,000 Kansas City YouthFriends for a mentoring project
$250,000 Springfield Missouri State University-Springfield for equipment and programs at the Missouri Virtual School
$200,000 Kansas City American Jazz Museum for exhibits, education programs, and an archival project
$200,000 Springfield Crisis Nursery of the Ozarks, for equipment
$200,000 Joplin Joplin School District, for the eJOPLIN initiative to improve teaching through technology
$200,000 St. Louis Webster University Community Music School for purchase of equipment
$150,000 Moberly Moberly Area Community College for its Integrated Systems Technology Program
$150,000 St. Louis St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf for a pilot program that will provide early intervention and mainstreaming services to severely deaf schoolchildren in selected unserved or underserved areas
$136,000 Gladstone City of Gladstone, MO for facilities and equipment
$100,000 St. Louis Lemay Child and Family Center, for early childhood education and family literacy programs
$100,000 Fulton Westminster College for curriculum development at the Bill Emerson Institute for Leadership and Service
$50,000 North Kansas City Construction Apprenticeship Tech Prep Consortium
$50,000 Joplin Child advocacy at the Children's Center of Southwest Missouri
$50,000 Joplin Joplin School District, for the SMART Board interactive whiteboard
$40,000 Jefferson County Jefferson College for equipment and technology

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