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- A win for Wisconsin families: Childcare in the 2025-2027 biennial state budget
- Port Washington data center on track to by far be state’s largest electricity user
- ‘We still need to pave our roads’
- Where the precipitous drop in birthrates is a very, very good thing
- How the pandemic is now used to make politicians look wonderful
- Tony Evers and why voters are going to be skeptical of what comes next
- Supreme Court gives governor’s bureaucrats free rein
- Robocars vs. overpriced groceries
Browsing: COVID-19
As stimulus rules supercharge costs, pressure grows to expand the unaccountable program in Wisconsin
Families turn to private schools as MPS ignores federal entreaties and keeps classrooms shut
Nearly 90,000 Wisconsin small businesses that have taken out loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will face hundreds of millions of dollars in state income tax liability on those loans this spring, despite the loans being tax-free at the federal level.
Streamlined licensing reciprocity should be made permanent and extended to other professions
Wisconsin’s small cities offer an escape for suddenly mobile metropolitan workers long cramped by a viral lockdown
With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses
Governments are instrumental in wars, natural disasters and, we’ve found, pandemics.
A statewide and county-by-county analysis
Balancing risks with freedom
Economic impact varies widely across Wisconsin counties
Plan would take into account regional risk factors and let consumers decide
Wisconsinites rush to help neighbors in need during crisis, prove fundamental goodness of civil society
Bill includes coalition recommendations for addressing the crisis
The unprecedented COVID crisis has devastated Wisconsin families, businesses and schools. The coming weeks will be deeply challenging as the state tries to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Now, more than ever, public policy matters.
Highway funding, which relies on the gas tax, will be hard hit as fuel sales decline
Wisconsin’s minimum markup law is particularly egregious when Wisconsinites are suffering
A free-market coalition of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin, the Badger Institute, and MacIver Institute have pooled their resources to offer some solutions and policy recommendations to assist the state’s workers and businesses, provide more certainty during the crisis, and spur a quick and lasting recovery.
In wake of COVID-19, telehealth regulations have been loosened; those changes should remain even after crisis is over
These principles should guide Wisconsin lawmakers as they confront the current public health and economic crisis
After Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order to cut red tape on medical licensing, the Badger Institute, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, The MacIver Institute and Americans for Prosperity urge the governor and state Legislature to continue to cut red tape to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Wisconsin.