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What do Wisconsinites want in 2025? Just the chance to buy a modest house and heat it affordably. A safe place away from gunshots and a job that pays the bills. And a really good school where kids feel safe and hopeful.

Our vow for the year ahead is to remind the legislators who love government that they are there to serve a greater good and their hard-working neighbors — not themselves.

In his new book, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch laments the vast expansion of the federal government into matters once left to the states, and he cites Badger Institute’s “Federal Grant$tanding” book, published in 2018.

Here at the Badger Institute, we still believe in the American Dream, in America, and in Wisconsin. Your generosity makes it possible for the Badger Institute to uphold the principles of free enterprise, liberty and limited government.

Thanks to your generosity, we produced reams of research, championed many policy reforms, helped kill some bad policies, and were part of numerous legislative victories in Madison.

Learn how the Badger Institute’s policy research, storytelling, investigative journalism, videos and advocacy is crucial to help translate policy ideas into bona fide policy reform.

The biggest policy decisions in the Badger State are made during budget deliberations. Here is how your support has helped spur policy ideas into tangible action:

Healthcare remains the only sector of the economy where patients must pay for services without first knowing the cost. Patients aren’t empowered with the information needed to make smart financial decisions, taking into account both price and quality of care. “The Know Your Healthcare Costs Act” would work to change that.

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The Badger Institute today announced the promotion of Angela Smith to executive vice president, the addition of board members Shannon Whitworth and Matt Rowe, and the appointment of an array of Wisconsin luminaries as emeritus directors.

The Badger Institute has been a champion of school choice since our inception as the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute in the late 1980s.

Feulner will discuss the impact of the Mandate for Leadership on the Reagan Revolution and the critical role policy organizations play in advancing reform

New additions will contribute to investigative reporting, Mandate for Madison

This printed magazine — which we’re exceedingly proud of — has remained the same size for years.

Sem, Niederjohn of Concordia University Wisconsin will conduct health care research

Hear a special message from Badger Institute President Mike Nichols.

Listen to a special message from our staff.

Watch the complete presentation of our 2021 Annual Dinner, featuring Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute.

New staff and board members will increase institute’s reach and impact

Bob Woodson — the Black, onetime civil rights activist who stresses time and again that poor, Black people can be agents of their own uplift — has this bit that he does when speaking to largely white audiences.