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- The new path for affordable and flexible healthcare for Wisconsin small businesses and their employees
- Parents increasingly want kids in independent charter and parental choice schools — but face obstacles
- The importance of keeping Act 10 and right-to-work, and how to create additional opportunity for workers
- Many new staff, same old class size
- Reducing regulatory burdens and improving Wisconsin’s business climate
- Why can’t metro Madison build enough houses for its high demand?
- What the Badger Institute has actually said about income taxes
- How Wisconsin can reverse its drift toward unaffordable homes
Browsing: Economy and Infastructure
Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical
Switching to a progressive income tax structure would drive Illinois even further behind Wisconsin
Lack of minority high school and college grads and wide prosperity gaps will only exacerbate the region’s growing employee shortage, business leaders fear
A tolling system on our interstate highways will make sure that all cars using our roads, even those from out of state, will contribute toward their upkeep and maintenance.
State funding for local roads should be used only for projects that create better and more efficient transportation routes or spur economic development.
Martin will expand the Badger Institute’s social media engagement, improve user friendliness of the website and grow the institute’s reach throughout the Badger State.
Wisconsin needs to face the reality of declining fuel-tax revenue and transition to per-mile charges
Fewer barriers mean barbers and stylists are now free to own and grow their businesses beyond shops and salons
The Department of Transportation now has the opportunity to study tolling as a path forward to fix our crumbling infrastructure
Wisconsin’s pro-growth, fiscally responsible policies are drawing an increasing number of Illinois residents to the state.
A better way to help the disabled get to work.
An analysis of the accelerating outbound migration across the border to the Badger State
Institute adds public affairs associate, corrections consultant and visiting fellow to team.
Department of Revenue’s guidelines on taxing ice cream cakes illustrate the absurd complexity of state’s sales tax system
Democrats on the far left embrace redistribution of income and other modern-day socialist ideals
The untold story — finally — of Milwaukee’s socialist icon and his appalling views toward blacks, immigrants and women
In a free society, it’s better when we the people — not the government — make the decisions
What we have seen happen in retail is mirrored throughout the economy
Detours, obstacles and deals gone bad didn’t deter Mike Mooney, chairman of leading commercial real estate firm MLG Capital
Claims that the streetcar swayed major development decisions in downtown Milwaukee are off track

