Browsing: Civil Society

According to a new report, Milwaukee County is a place where economic mobility fell sharply for kids born between 1978 and 1992.

Glover was living in Racine in 1854, two years after he escaped slavery in Missouri, when a bounty-hunting posse found him and dragged him off to Milwaukee’s jail, intending to return him to bondage.

Sociologist Brad Wilcox is telling young people to marry because it will make them happier. “People who embrace the core values and virtues associated with marriage are more likely to flourish both in marriage and in life.”

When Census tracts in Wisconsin are categorized by their median household’s income, those tracts in low-income tiers see a greater percentage of their households headed by single mothers than those in high-income tiers.

The Social Development Commission, Wisconsin’s largest anti-poverty social services agency, abruptly closed its doors in late April after the latest in a series of scandals stretching back over more than 30 years.

Lazy whiners not welcome. Latest entry in a series of profiles of persevering small towns in the Badger State —…

Wisconsin’s smallest incorporated village is on a hill, and in a valley, too.

Only a certain kind of person or family wants to be in Millville, Wisconsin. And no one grandfathered into residency is clamoring for some kind of economic revival.

If you’re not married to whomever you hooked up with nine months before your baby was born, you’re very unlikely to be together 15 years later. That makes it a lot harder to pay the bills.

Single-parent households are still the minority among U.S. households with children. However, the share of households with children headed by a single parent — rather than by a married or unmarried couple — varies from state to state. According to Census data from 2022, Wisconsin has the 25th highest percentage of single-parent households among the states and the District of Columbia.

In most of rural Wisconsin, population is flat or declining. The Badger Institute identified 116, or nearly 6%, of the state’s 1,939 municipal units that have lost more than 20% of their populations since 1990.

A discussion on black conservativism that took place on the UW-Madison campus and was broadcast live on Zoom Saturday was interrupted by what appeared to be a coordinated protest when someone hacked into the online portion, insulted speakers with vulgar language and was joined by a handful of others who exposed  themselves onscreen nude or masturbating.

The American Dream isn’t primarily about money. 

According to Pew Research Center analysis, just 11% said “being wealthy” is essential to the American Dream. Large majorities cite “freedom of choice in how to live” (77%), having a good family life (70%) and retiring comfortably (60%).

The Badger Institute’s visiting fellow, Eloise Anderson, explains why men who have been left behind are vital to a new civil society.

The good things in life in this democracy — opportunity, fulfillment, upward mobility, prosperity, the redounding energy and succor that comes from free association, love of relatives and friends

Milwaukee’s school choice program shows that letting parents choose a moral ecology is how differing beliefs can coexist.

There is never one cure-all for complex societal problems like poverty or morally, economically and emotionally untethered children. The first thing is to recognize the problem for what it is. The numbers make that easy.

Governor’s veto lays bare the doubletalk of the CRT crowd.

The following is testimony delivered by Badger Institute Senior Vice President Michael Jahr in favor of AB 692, a bill designed to eliminate the marriage penalty for participants in the Wisconsin Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program.

Hear a special message from Badger Institute President Mike Nichols.