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One of the following two things happened this month. Guess which one didn’t:

Of all the wasteful impulses many politicians have, one of the worst is giving big tax breaks to dying industries.

Scaring taxpayers about school choice income limits is arrogant.

Wisconsin voters could make 2023 a watershed year for oversight of currently unchecked spending of billions of dollars of federal funding flowing into the state.

The polling shows more and more parents want that opportunity for their kids – and more and more other Wisconsinites believe the right thing to do is to give it to them now.

Governor’s veto lays bare the doubletalk of the CRT crowd.

Unless kids are killed or maimed, gun battles at school are just police blotter items.

Pulling cops out of public schools was a crazy idea.

At the height of the initial COVID-19 outbreak, correctional and other public safety agencies in Wisconsin bought at least 55 disinfection robots at a cost of more than $2.2 million.

Pretrial risk assessment should be expanded, not scrapped, advocates say

If you’ve recently filled out a school admission form, read a story in the local paper, or listened to a white politician talk about Latinos, then you may have heard the term Latinx.

Research indicates a correlation between proper dental hygiene, including regular dental visits, and a lower risk of serious COVID infection and complications, according to a recent study out of Cairo University.

It’s an understatement to say that Wisconsin businesses are struggling to find workers.

The fury of parents aimed at local school boards across the country was stoked this week by a government whistleblower who says the FBI set up a system to begin tracking those angry exchanges at the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland

Shortly after the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the CARES Act, a $2.2 trillion bill designed to alleviate the negative economic consequences of government-mandated shutdowns.

Wisconsin’s unemployment situation has rebounded, but participation in government programs remains elevated. Angela K. Rachidi, PhD is the author of a Badger Institute report “Employment and the Safety Net During the Pandemic”
October 21, 2021

Progressives ignore past failures, and have no idea how to pay for a ‘greater society’ 

Milwaukee, Madison and Wausau plan to pay certain low-income families monthly stipends with no strings attached

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