Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

Some folks in Wisconsin believe that we are simply another part of the federal government and should march in lockstep.

Building new facilities often do little to alleviate the scourge of crime-ridden neighborhoods, which just get pushed to the background — until they explode.

Badger Institute President Mike Nichols testifies in favor of 2015 AB 32 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Labor on May 27, 2015

2015 AB 32 would eliminate the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage.

There’s ample evidence that Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law is harming taxpayers and contractors, frustrating good government servants and diverting resources away from those in need.

Five stories from around Wisconsin illustrate the need for repeal of prevailing wage.
Authors include Dave Daley, Lori Holly, Greg Pearson, Betsy Thatcher
and Jan Uebelherr

The harder we make it for young people to get on the first rung of the job ladder, the harder it will be to move up.

Come hear author Charles C.W. Cooke explain

The new year brought new signs of momentum for the Wisconsin economy.

Rather than being portrayed as the enemy of low-income blacks, police should be seen instead as the community’s strongest allies against recurring violence.

Badger Institute President Mike Nichols testifies in favor of 2015 SB 44 before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Labor and Government Reform on February 24, 2015

2015 SB 44 would prohibit as a condition of employment membership in a labor organization or payments to a labor organization

The fight over right-to-work has lots of subplots – but a big one involves the role some unions play in training workers.

Even Democrats favor a right-to-work law that would end compulsory union dues from unwilling workers Back in the 1990s, Tiffany…

In a January article comparing the economic status of the black community in 52 of the nation’s  largest metropolitan areas, policy expert Joel Kotkin ranked Atlanta and Washington, D.C., among cities with the most prosperous black populations and ranked Milwaukee dead last.

Analysis shows the economic benefits of a right-to-work law.

Like many families from the city, every summer while I was growing up, my family would pack up the car and take a trip to the hinterlands of Wisconsin.

In the past, climate change has been a wedge issue between conservatives and liberals, but that tide appears to be turning.

Seventy-five parts per billion is a huge number when it comes to ground-level ozone pollution, says the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

BY MIKE NICHOLS | Dec. 15, 2014 Many years ago, after taking a job as a young reporter at the old…

In 2012, Democratic candidates successfully sold the narrative that Republicans were waging a war against American women. Consequently, exit polls found a significant gender gap.

Wisconsinites need to get used to the idea of electronic tolls on our freeways. It’s a free-market solution to an overwhelming problem: lack of cash to pay for modestly modern highways.