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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.

By now, there’s enough mythology surrounding the patterns and trends exhibited by the millennial generation to overwhelm any researcher.

Raising the minimum wage would boost the wages of some workers, but it also would result in fewer jobs.

Can we please stop using the word “outsourcing”?

The American Dream The left’s response to Paul Ryan’s attempt to change the national dialogue about poverty was, perhaps, predictable.…

Here we are again In a few weeks, Wisconsin voters will again get to decide whether to continue the conservative…

WPRI launches digital newsletter

Who’s really listening to all the talk about jobs in Wisconsin?

Milwaukee and some of its unheralded community groups and violence-fighting programs hold “the key to changing this country,” according to Robert Woodson Sr., one of America’s most influential and outspoken voices on welfare myths and finding new ways to combat poverty.  

Wisconsin news media are focused on the “sluggish” statewide, private-sector job growth numbers that are a little more than half…