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- Supreme Court gives governor’s bureaucrats free rein
- Robocars vs. overpriced groceries
- Antiquated Wisconsin law doesn’t allow driverless vehicles
- Plenty of time left for good policy in Wisconsin Legislature
- The truth about MPS, who makes it to graduation and who doesn’t
- Wisconsin’s retirement income exclusion will shift tax burdens to working families over time
- Taxpayers getting jobbed
- Cursing the rain — and tax cuts — cuz everyone benefits
Browsing: Licensing and Regulation
Measure creates universal recognition, waives fees for low-income workers, expands opportunity for ex-offenders
The Wisconsin Legislature and Governor Evers worked together this spring to pass a bipartisan COVID-19 response package that included several policy reforms recommended by the Wisconsin Free Market Coalition.
Relentless bureaucratic creep undermines competition and hurts consumers
Accepting out-of-state credentials should continue after the crisis ends
Outdated Wisconsin law hampers electric automaker’s direct-sales business model
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.
After Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order to cut red tape on medical licensing, the Badger Institute, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, The MacIver Institute and Americans for Prosperity urge the governor and state Legislature to continue to cut red tape to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Wisconsin.
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
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
‘Sunrise review’ would inform legislators about impact of proposed occupational licenses
Wisconsin should join states that have enacted sunrise laws as an alternative to new licenses that fence out workers and don’t protect the public
What is occupational licensing, how does it affect employment and consumer costs, and what options exist for reform?