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- The new path for affordable and flexible healthcare for Wisconsin small businesses and their employees
- Parents increasingly want kids in independent charter and parental choice schools — but face obstacles
- The importance of keeping Act 10 and right-to-work, and how to create additional opportunity for workers
- Many new staff, same old class size
- Reducing regulatory burdens and improving Wisconsin’s business climate
- Why can’t metro Madison build enough houses for its high demand?
- What the Badger Institute has actually said about income taxes
- How Wisconsin can reverse its drift toward unaffordable homes
Browsing: Economy and Infastructure
Watch the complete presentation of our 2021 Annual Dinner, featuring Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute.
Wisconsin’s unemployment situation has rebounded, but participation in government programs remains elevated. Angela K. Rachidi, PhD is the author of a Badger Institute report “Employment and the Safety Net During the Pandemic”
October 21, 2021
New staff and board members will increase institute’s reach and impact
Watch a forward-looking update on the life changing work of the Badger Institute
The former governor reflects and responds to his critics
Public-private hybrids underperform and are fraught with risk
Inside a $1.2 trillion bill, state Republicans say, is a progressive spending dream list
A frank conversation excerpted from the Badger Institute’s podcast series, Free Exchange
No strings attached entitlements for targeted groups is preview of something more permanent
Lawmakers should reinstate work requirements to encourage labor force participation, says author
Wisconsin’s unemployment situation has rebounded, but participation in government programs remains elevated.
Milwaukee, Madison and Wausau plan to pay certain low-income families monthly stipends with no strings attached
Learn more about the internship opportunities available this Fall
New law makes it clear natural braiders don’t need state license
Changes to TPP, UI, and tax brackets are all being debated
Premiere features youngest hostage during 1979 embassy crisis in Iran, now president of Mosinee school board
Primer analyzes proposed policies and makes recommendations for Wisconsin
In a joint brief with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, we lay out the problems with occupational licensing in Wisconsin and what meaningful reforms can be enacted.
A menu of pro-growth tax reform options from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute.
The Evers administration included a $100 million public venture capital fund in its state budget proposal. While the Republican-controlled Legislature cut 400 items from the governor’s budget, this measure survived. In an open letter, the Wisconsin Free Market Coalition today calls on legislators to jettison this expensive and risky proposal.

