This article was originally published by St.Louis Patch Dispatch.
For more than a century, the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas have been fervent rivals in college sports. We will have to wait another three months until they play each other again in basketball and another year for the football rivalry to renew once more.
In the meantime, both Kansas and Missouri have proven themselves worthy competitors in another sphere — making it easier for citizens of each state to get a job and begin climbing the economic ladder of opportunity.
In a recent joint publication for the Archbridge Institute and Knee Regulatory Research Center that I co-authored with Noah Trudeau and Sebastian Anastasi, we rank states based on the number of occupations that they license.
