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Wisconsin's small cities offer an escape for suddenly mobile metropolitan workers long cramped by a viral lockdown
By Ike Brannon
With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses
By Ike Brannon
June 18, 2020
Badger Institute analysts and visiting fellows have weighed in on the COVID-19 health and economic crisis from a variety of perspectives over the past several weeks.
By Ike Brannon, David Fladeboe, Julie Grace, Robert W. Poole Jr. and Marie Rohde
Wisconsin's minimum markup law is particularly egregious when Wisconsinites are suffering
By Ike Brannon
April 9, 2020
Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical.
By Ike Brannon
August 2, 2019
Wisconsin's deal should be scrapped for reasons far beyond the possible switch from factory jobs to research jobs.
By Ike Brannon
March 4, 2019
Governments aren’t very good at figuring out which businesses are likely to grow and which are likely to fail.
By Ike Brannon
August 16, 2017
Beyond the lives lost and countless other tragedies related to addiction, the opioid epidemic imposes a heavy monetary cost in Wisconsin.
By Ike Brannon and Devorah Goldman
May 4, 2017
Wisconsin currently licenses hundreds of professions. Some of those are unobjectionable, but other licenses are problematic.
By Ike Brannon
April 7, 2017
Admitting students with little chance to graduate helps no one; tying UW System funding to graduation rates would force change.
By Ike Brannon and Mike Nichols
March 1, 2017
We need to rethink how we use the faculty at the non-Ph.D.-granting schools in Wisconsin to improve the lot of the state’s students.
By Ike Brannon
November 22, 2016
The harder we make it for young people to get on the first rung of the job ladder, the harder it will be to move up.
By Ike Brannon
April 8, 2015