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- Wisconsin’s childcare subsidies, regulations fail for families
- How a development tool can increase property taxes
- Wisconsin should stop treating data centers worse than other taxpaying industries
- Why are schools that put kids more than a year ahead even at issue?
- Teaching economics, electing to ignore it
- Johnson uses new budget role to highlight out-of-control Medicaid spending and fraud
- It’s time for Welfare Reform 2.0 in Wisconsin
- Eau Claire teens find police are the opposite of oppressors
Browsing: Economy and Infastructure
“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.
The Joseph Project addresses regional employment challenges with a free-market approach.
Wisconsin conservatives or Minnesota liberals?
Report compares the growth and distribution of Income in Wisconsin and Minnesota after the Great Recession.
About one-third of all state spending today originates in Washington, D.C., dramatically increasing the influence of the federal government on state spending priorities.
It’s almost impossible to find a legislator willing to defend the markup law on policy grounds; it’s also impossible to find a legislator willing to even hold a public hearing and risk rankling special interests.
We need to know why nearly half of liberal arts graduates from our state’s top university regret the way they spent their money.
Why are Madison and Dane County always the default for locating new state government facilities?
The proliferation of grants-in-aid has driven up federal and state spending and taxes, hampered the prosperity and independence of Wisconsin’s citizens and ultimately moved America dangerously closer to centrally controlled governance.
Many of LakeView Technology Academy’s graduates are leaving high school with half of an associate’s degree in their pockets. Others are entering four-year universities as second-semester freshmen.

