Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

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.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic struck the  United States in 2020, Congress began shotgunning money out over the country in unprecedented ways.

Climate change alarmism has become a science of its own.

Bipartisan licensure reform legislation backed by the Badger Institute has been signed into law.

One of the following two things happened this month. Guess which one didn’t:

The following is testimony delivered by Badger Institute Senior Vice President Michael Jahr on strategies for reducing the occupational licensing backlog.

Wisconsin voters could make 2023 a watershed year for oversight of currently unchecked spending of billions of dollars of federal funding flowing into the state.

Reforms would expand oversight of federal funds, school and health care options, increase workforce participation.

The Badger Institute today announced partnerships with several leading research organizations and subject matter experts who will contribute to its 2022 Mandate for Madison, a policy roadmap for the governor and Legislature beginning in 2023.

The following is testimony submitted by Badger Institute Visiting Fellow Angela Rachidi in favor of AB 935 – FoodShare work and FoodShare employment and training requirements and drug testing.

Pulling cops out of public schools was a crazy idea.

At the height of the initial COVID-19 outbreak, correctional and other public safety agencies in Wisconsin bought at least 55 disinfection robots at a cost of more than $2.2 million.