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Predictions of rising Wisconsin power demand are driven by plans for data centers, the electricity-gulping organs of the online economy.

Food prices in the Midwest have grown 30 percent over the past decade, driven mostly by the explosive price inflation that occurred in 2021 and 2022, official statistics show. Food price inflation has been slower since then, and the inflation rate is below 2% in most recent months.

Wisconsin hens lay 313 eggs per year Wisconsin hens produced a total of 2.43 billion eggs in 2024, 15 million…

Wisconsin residents report the increasing strain of trying to afford a home. These experiences are borne out by market data showing more Wisconsin residents priced out of homeownership.

Wisconsin’s governor talks of new 9.8% top tax rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

Rep. David Steffen and Sen. Julian Bradley are circulating a joint resolution supporting expansion of nuclear energy production in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin ranked seventh among the states in beer production by volume through the first three quarters of 2024, data from the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau show.

Port Washington’s announcement of another billion-dollar data center project in southeastern Wisconsin is focusing attention on the challenge of meeting the voracious energy needs of this new economic opportunity.

The population of Wisconsin will decline by approximately 279,000 people over the next 25 years, according to projections released by the state Department of Administration.

Wisconsin’s biggest metropolis enjoys the third-highest concentration of manufacturing jobs in the country. The EPA’s redesignation, dropped with little warning in early December, could kill that.

Wisconsin’s economy is thriving under free market reforms, many aided by Badger Institute research and advocacy.

Populist trade policy at the national level is especially dangerous for Wisconsin workers.

Results from the nation’s most comprehensive experiment in offering people a guaranteed basic income offer a warning: Unconditional cash payments did nothing to permanently lift participants out of poverty and dependency.

By the numbers Wisconsinites’ spending on food rose sharply in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily driven by inflation…

Cheeseheads have a new bleating heart When it comes to dairy cow production, Wisconsin was long, well, the GOAT. For…

Small nuclear modular reactors are a big deal for Wisconsin, given our developing AI economy and Gov. Evers’ Clean Energy Plan.

The value of goods exported from Wisconsin reached a record high in 2023. Wisconsin’s top international trade partners in both imports and exports were Canada, Mexico, China, and Germany.

Waiving the work requirement led to an increase of 780 adults receiving FoodShare on average per county per month from 2012-2023 in Wisconsin.

Government overregulation is imperiling the start of a $1 billion plan to expand broadband service to the hardest-to-reach places in Wisconsin.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ new housing down payment assistance proposal, which would give $25,000 to qualifying first-time home buyers, would dramatically increase housing prices, particularly in Midwestern metro areas such as Milwaukee, according to a new study by scholars at the American Enterprise Institute.