Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

Climate change has been blamed over the years for the rise … and fall … and rise again of lake levels

Economic impact varies widely across Wisconsin counties

Outdated Wisconsin law hampers electric automaker’s direct-sales business model

Outdated Wisconsin law hampers electric automaker’s direct-sales business model

Plan would take into account regional risk factors and let consumers decide

Bill includes coalition recommendations for addressing the crisis

The unprecedented COVID crisis has devastated Wisconsin families, businesses and schools. The coming weeks will be deeply challenging as the state tries to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Now, more than ever, public policy matters.

A free-market coalition of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin, the Badger Institute, and MacIver Institute have pooled their resources to offer some solutions and policy recommendations to assist the state’s workers and businesses, provide more certainty during the crisis, and spur a quick and lasting recovery.

Wisconsin would be worse off had responsible budgeting not produced healthy surplus, rainy day fund
By David Fladeboe
April 6, 2020

Arizona, Pennsylvania paved way for full licensure recognition

Lawmakers should streamline regulations so more people can work

For more than a year, bureaucratic delays and hurdles imposed by the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) deprived Meggan Thompson of a job and an income, and deprived Wisconsinites with debilitating mental health issues of the help she could have long ago provided.

Occupational licensing regulations can undermine public health in the name of protecting it

The Legislature should not delegate taxing responsibility and authority to an industry association

The Badger Institute hosted a roundtable discussion on work, poverty and the use of federal safety nets to promote self-reliance.

Badger Institute Policy Analyst Julie Grace testified in favor of 2019 SB 746, SB 747, and SB 760 before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Public Benefits, Licensing and State-Federal Relations on February 18, 2020

2019 SB 746, SB 747, and SB 760 would positively impact and streamline the state’s licensing process.

Senate committee passes two licensing reform bills

Public members discuss how they view their role on boards

Decisions from licensing boards are oftentimes arbitrary and unfair

Bill allows for optional registration for in-state insurance adjusters