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- Wisconsin Scouts increasingly running into closed school doors
- What Wisconsin’s constitutional amendment means for big government spending
- 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”?
Browsing: Economy and Infastructure
Badger Institute Policy Analyst Julie Grace testified in favor of 2021 AB 218 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform on April 27, 2021.
2021 AB 218 would streamline the process to obtain an occupational license in Wisconsin
An unnecessary second stimulus is an invitation for state, county and local officials to act irresponsibly with our tax money
Federal dollars drove personal, small bankruptcies down, but Chapter 11s were flat and could spike
Two very different COVID-19 responses produce different economic outcomes in Hudson, WI, and Stillwater, MN
Editor’s Note What, exactly, have our governments just done for us?By Mike Nichols Medicaid on Red Alert As stimulus rules…
Massive federal spending leaves many in the Badger State better off, but the bill is coming due
What, exactly, have our governments just done for us?
Badger Institute President Mike Nichols testifies in favor of 2017 SB 108 and SB 109 before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal
Relations on April 6, 2017
2017 SB 108 and SB 109 would reduce the burdens and restrictions on licensed barbers in Wisconsin
Badger Institute Policy Analyst Julie Grace submitted written testimony in favor of 2021 SB 216 before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Insurance, Licensing, and Forestry on April 1, 2021.
2021 SB 216 would allow people to braid hair without obtaining a license.
Every time we get our feet on the ladder, they cut the rungs off.” I was in high school when my dad made this statement regarding the minimum wage.
Some of the governor’s budget proposals to help low-income families are ineffective, ripe for abuse or better left to the private sector
By Angela Rachidi
March 16, 2021
Badger Institute Policy Analyst Julie Grace submitted written testimony in favor of 2021 AB 121 before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Insurance, Licensing, and Forestry on March 3, 2021.
2021 AB 121 would allow people to braid hair without obtaining a license.
As streetcar ridership and funding dwindle, alderman warns of long-term fiscal burden
Parents with disabilities or health limitations often time out of the program or end up on disability insurance
Wisconsin’s small cities offer an escape for suddenly mobile metropolitan workers long cramped by a viral lockdown
Elections commission is confident that ballot tracking and barcoding will mean smooth and secure voting
Raising the minimum wage is an overly simplistic way to make housing more affordable for low-income people
In a truly horrible year, perhaps there have been planted the seeds of miracles
Parents with disabilities or health limitations often time out of the program or end up on disability insurance
In 2020, Missouri joined a growing coalition of states in reforming their occupational licensure laws. We hosted an event with Rep. Derek Grier (R-Chesterfield) and Sen. Brian Williams (D-St. Louis) to discuss how they accomplished this