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Even as demand for electricity appears set to soar in coming years, utility and private-sector players are envisioning new versions of nuclear power.

Wisconsin has a new opportunity to help solve one of this country’s thorniest problems: the cost of healthcare for small businesses and employees without access to traditional group health insurance.

Wisconsin’s next Legislature and governor should work to ensure that more Wisconsin families can access the education they believe best serves their children.

Wisconsin labor and employment policy can, in some instances, tilt in the favor of insiders, impose costs on outsiders, and adversely affect the state’s economic performance.

How can there be one staff member for every seven students in Milwaukee Public Schools and yet classes as large as 34?

Wisconsin can strengthen its economic competitiveness by reducing unnecessary regulation, improving oversight of the regulatory process and making its legal environment more efficient and predictable for businesses

Madison is among the 50 costliest metros nationwide, yet most of Dane County remains open land that would seem to be an obvious place for single-family homes.

The Democratic Governors Association is falsely insinuating that the Badger Institute panned a “scheme” by gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany to eliminate Wisconsin’s income tax.

What works for Wisconsin housing is letting the market build: easing the zoning, lot size, and permitting rules that artificially constrain supply.

Wisconsin should replace its current graduated individual income tax with a single-rate structure and set that rate as low as fiscal conditions responsibly allow.

Total potential private giving through the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit could be six times higher than previously estimated.

Wisconsin’s northern counties’ budgets, economies are squeezed by how much land is undevelopable and off tax rolls.

Business and city leaders in Janesville are warning of the long-term economic damage of citizens taking direct control over major development in the city.

Wisconsin transportation policy should begin with the people who use the system: where they want to go, how they want to get there and how those choices may change as new technologies become available.

A costly proposed commuter rail system between Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee is back on the radar of municipal leaders, even as frequent service on high-end buses already serves commuters on the same route.

If Wisconsin children receive poor instruction, attend chaotic schools, and learn through weak, incoherent curricula, then industry and civil society will struggle accordingly.

Much remains to make Wisconsin reach its full economic potential, including matching its strong inputs with stronger outputs.

With important reforms, Wisconsin can meet both the demands of ensuring safe and affordable childcare for Wisconsin families while controlling overall costs.  

Tax increment financing can raise existing residents’ property tax bills, at least the way the tool is used in Wisconsin.

Overall spending by the federal and state governments on Medicaid has never once been reduced since Congress approved the program in 1965.