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Browsing: Government Transparency
Last month, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue released data showing the state’s general fund tax collections for fiscal year (FY) 2019 were up nearly $1.2 billion, or 7.4 percent, from FY 2018, and nearly $703 million higher than anticipated when the state’s FY 2018-19 budget was adopted.
The use of historic designation nowadays often has nothing to do with preservation
The Foxconn lesson: State should level the playing field, not offer firm-specific incentives
Wisconsin’s deal should be scrapped for reasons far beyond the possible switch from factory jobs to research jobs
James Madison would be dismayed by his namesake capital’s role in relinquishing local control to get federal grants
Wisconsin newspapers fail to disclose left-wing funding sources for hundreds of stories they publish
New Badger Institute book finds federal grants deprive us of our money, liberty and trust.
How federal grants are depriving us of our money, liberty and trust in government – and what we can do about it. This book by the Badger Institute urges states to push back.
Sunshine Week: Records request illustrates lack of transparency of federal school funding
It would seem a simple question to ask of any public agency: How much money do you spend and on what?
‘I have to do a lot of paperwork and spend time testing my kids instead of teaching my kids’
Effort to scrap popular Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is a case study in how difficult it is to reduce spending
Private contractors help states grab more U.S. dollars at the expense of serving children and the poor
U.S. education secretary also plans to give them more say over federal school dollars
Following institute’s story, Gov. Scott Walker asks Department of Public Instruction to resubmit Wisconsin federal funding plan.
ESSA could offer opportunities for state to involve districts in decision-making
School officials make decisions they wouldn’t make otherwise to comply with funding requirements.
By Julie Grace and Dan Benson
September 12, 2017
Grants-in-aid represent more than 1,100 federal aid programs, each with its own rules and regulations.
Sunshine Week: Federal grant funding obscures how government is funded, diffuses accountability
For close to a year now, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has been wrestling with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain a report on what steps
More than it used to be, but Mayor Barrett fails to count all the state’s funding to the city or how much other communities give
St. Croix Chippewa agree to fix grants review process.
Managing federal education dollars is costing Wisconsin taxpayers millions and benefiting children hardly at all.