Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

Wisconsin should join states that have enacted sunrise laws as an alternative to new licenses that fence out workers and don’t protect the public

Angela Rachidi, resident scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Eloise Anderson, former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and a Badger Institute visiting fellow, discuss safety net programs and work in Wisconsin. Rachidi is author of the January 2020 Badger Institute report “Wisconsin’s missing rung: Policies linked to work are critical to lifting people out of poverty.”

Policies linked to work are critical to lifting people out of poverty

Policies linked to work are critical to lifting people out of poverty

What is occupational licensing, how does it affect employment and consumer costs, and what options exist for reform?

Gov. Evers vetoes bill that would’ve helped aspiring certified nursing aides and eased shortage in Wisconsin

An employer handbook

Creating a license for public insurance adjusters is not necessary in Wisconsin

For Margaret Farrow, longtime legislator and Wisconsin’s first female lieutenant governor, the public always comes first

The bulk of the wealth of the very rich is in business assets, which benefit the economy

Hordes of job-seeking Socialists descended on our office wanting the crumbs of victory,’ says famed poet, who served as Emil Seidel’s secretary

Milwaukee’s first socialist mayor blamed his 1912 re-election loss on his call to tax the assets of the rich

Election reforms that are designed to wrest control from the major parties and to fix political dysfunction are gaining support

Even failed and troubled ones like the Job Corps training centers are nearly impossible to shut down

The federal government has the right approach by revising existing rules rather than starting unnecessary new programs

State government needn’t have a hand in retirement-savings fix; private-sector options already proliferate

Rich people shouldn’t be the beneficiaries’ of a federal program that gives investors tax breaks to help disadvantaged areas, critics say

Travaux, the authority’s nonprofit arm, has strong ties to Milwaukee city government

The Milwaukee Housing Authority competes with private developers with its luxury apartment project downtown

Think politicians and bureaucrats are looking out for you? Think again