Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

UW students can’t launch Uber-like haircut business in Wisconsin without action from Legislature

We compiled a list of resources for state policy-makers on issues ranging from professional licensure to transportation funding to corrections reform. This handy brochure includes reports, commentaries and links to videos designed to inform public discourse on issues that will affect Wisconsin residents for years to come

Albert Walker, whose clients include many Packers players, has years of experience but can’t run his own shop

Ex-offender Albert Walker and Packer Mike Daniels discuss Walker’s new barber lounge in Green Bay. The shop is in jeopardy due to an onerous and unnecessary state licensing law.

Wisconsin needs to solve its highway funding shortfall, and toll-financed Interstate modernization is a powerful tool for doing so.

Wisconsin currently licenses hundreds of professions. Some of those are unobjectionable, but other licenses are problematic.

(and the real-world stories of Wisconsinites cheated out of their livelihoods)

Research and stories show the need for occupational licensing reform in Wisconsin. Authors include Ike Brannon, Logan Albright, Scott Niederjohn, Mark Schug and Jan Uebelherr.

Beauty school graduate from Milwaukee just wants to work but has been thwarted for over a year.

“How often do ethics change in massage therapy?” she wonders.

“We’re not playing with people’s lives. We’re playing with people’s hair,” Krissy Hudack says.

Beauty school graduate just wants to work but has been thwarted for over a year.

More than it used to be, but Mayor Barrett fails to count all the state’s funding to the city or how much other communities give

“We’re not playing with people’s lives. We’re playing with people’s hair,” says northern Wisconsin salon owner.

The EITC promotes the expansion of the labor market by increasing the reward to work, while at the same time making it more attractive for businesses to hire.

On Jan. 24, 2017, Mike Nichols, WPRI president, and Dan Benson, editor of the Project for 21st Century Federalism, testified in Madison before the Assembly Committee on Federalism and Interstate Relations. Here is a transcript of their presentation.

One of the rumored top choices President-elect Donald Trump was mulling to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was Rob Astorino

Wisconsin cannot afford the status quo on its corrections policy. Programs across the nation that are working to reduce recidivism should be part of the state’s strategy.
Authors include Michael Flaherty, Marie Rohde, Michael Jahr, Janet Weyandt, Joe Stumpe and Gerard Robinson.

Data show people of all political persuasions also favor a govern local approach to solving many of our problems.

The predicament in which the city finds itself is the result of letting the prospect of “free” federal money determine local policy.

There is evidence that some inebriated Wisconsinites are starting to make better decisions due to the increasing availability of ridesharing.