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- Subject by subject, Wisconsin districts face higher rates of teacher turnover
- Milwaukee rents in national spotlight; rent caps not the solution
- Gov. Evers’ irresponsible budget
- Manitowoc and builder bend to make houses attainable
- Federal prosecutors in Madison have stopped prosecuting cannabis offenses
- Derail the Hop permanently
- Wisconsin cities can grow if they let housing markets work, say scholars
- Half of Wisconsin state employees may be working from home — though no one has a complete count
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From all of us here at the Badger Institute, we hope you have a great Independence Day as we celebrate our shared blessings.
Changes to TPP, UI, and tax brackets are all being debated
Dental therapists could help address oral care shortage
By Anne Trautner
June 23, 2021
The Albrecht Free Clinic in West Bend gets calls daily from Medicaid patients in need of dental care.
A menu of pro-growth tax reform options from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute.
Why Wisconsin shouldn’t spend $100 million in taxpayer money to invest in private enterprise
State Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Dallet wrote recently, according to a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that a study on race and prison sentencing in Wisconsin “confirms what I and many others have been saying, which is that we have a long way yet to go to have a system that truly treats all equally.
Wisconsin voters often split evenly on big elections and key issues. But voters on the right and the left agree on the dire shortcomings of the state’s corrections system and the need for reform.
Pastor Jerome Smith got a second chance and made sure countless others received one too
Eighty-seven percent of people who would qualify for an expungement under proposed legislation have never committed anything more serious than a misdemeanor, according to new data from the Badger Institute.
For those with a single, low-level, non-violent offense on their record, receiving an expungement would give them the chance to fully move past their mistake, opening employment and housing opportunities.
Every time we get our feet on the ladder, they cut the rungs off.” I was in high school when my dad made this statement regarding the minimum wage.
Dentists see that adding the mid-level providers eases the care shortage, expands access and creates efficiencies
Some of the governor’s budget proposals to help low-income families are ineffective, ripe for abuse or better left to the private sector
By Angela Rachidi
March 16, 2021
Nearly 90,000 Wisconsin small businesses that have taken out loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will face hundreds of millions of dollars in state income tax liability on those loans this spring, despite the loans being tax-free at the federal level.
Streamlined licensing reciprocity should be made permanent and extended to other professions
As streetcar ridership and funding dwindle, alderman warns of long-term fiscal burden
While NBA players tout education reform, Milwaukee school officials continue to rig the game.
State needs better crime data to get an accurate picture of who’s incarcerated here and why
A growing list of states that have adopted universal licensure recognition