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- Five surprising facts about the Wisconsin economy: Experiencing the benefits of free market reforms
- Minnesotans fleeing to western Wisconsin
- Barely one bill in 10 becomes law in Madison
- The many ways Wisconsinites will pay and pay for other people’s student debt
- UW tenure hysteria was unwarranted
- Will government’s heavy hand make business “Go Galt”?
- Chronic Absenteeism remains extremely high in districts across Wisconsin
- Settled: Pandemic school lockdowns hurt Wisconsin kids badly and were pointless
Browsing: Economy and Infastructure
Wisconsin’s politicians prohibit over 1 million citizens from working unless they have government permission.
It’s campaign season, so the only numbers that seem to matter to the mainstream media are the ones in polls.
As a way for funding an important public good — highways — Wisconsin’s gas tax was pretty good
Recent and rigorous academic evaluations suggest that such policies aren’t effective at increasing employment among the formerly incarcerated.
August 11, 2022
Dave Obey isn’t bone-tired after all. When the former House Appropriations chairman stunned the Beltway — and his district back…
Even before the pandemic, U.S. entitlement spending was on an unsustainable path, the growth in means-tested safety net programs far outstripping inflation.
Turns out, as it always does when you look at where federal tax dollars end up in this country, Wisconsin is bringing up the tail end in the scramble for COVID cash.
January 13, 2022
The century-old progressive income tax is no longer a viable model
Tax reform options to improve Wisconsin’s Competitiveness
A new report from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute offers five comprehensive tax reform options to enhance Wisconsin’s tax competitiveness by reducing harmful taxes on labor and investment.
New additions will contribute to investigative reporting, Mandate for Madison
As you fill up with gas that as of Thursday averages $4.84 a gallon in metro Milwaukee, remember that the progressive movement in Washington, D.C., long has wanted fuel to be priced as a luxury good.
Policymakers should advance reforms that prioritize GSP, personal income growth
By now, the health emergency has little to do with it
Survey solicits opinions on health care, crime, occupational licensing, and other issues.
Neither secret or unprecedented, business dispute docket helps all Wisconsinites.
At the time the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its first major assessment of federal COVID-19 spending in March, more than 400 people had pleaded guilty to defrauding the programs and another 550 had been charged with felony fraud.
With cost overruns on bridge, road and other infrastructure megaprojects in Wisconsin as certain as death, taxes and Packers’ title-run failures, budget hawks are on high alert with new federal money about to inundate the state.
Jimmy Gullberg has 129,200 followers on the social media platform TikTok, many of whom look to him for entertaining advice about his job as a physician assistant in Milwaukee.
This printed magazine — which we’re exceedingly proud of — has remained the same size for years.