The Coalition agrees with Dan Mehan, President of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, who said in a press conference shown in the St. Louis Business Journal in April 2010, “Economic development is not anti-education and two should not be pitted against each other. Now, more than ever, Missouri needs a balanced approach that addresses both the needs of job creation and systems to provide an educated work force, The two do not work against each other. They go hand in hand.”