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The 2018 Farm Bill failed to address a key loophole in the country’s main food assistance program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — a loophole that states have increasingly used over the past decade to expand SNAP income eligibility beyond the intent of the law. In July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Poor pavement condition and high spending mean the state isn’t getting top value from its highway dollars

Wisconsin is one of the worst-performing states in the country at providing dental care for disadvantaged kids

Nationally and across the states, policy-makers from both parties are supporting less burdensome licensure rules

Wisconsin should rethink its entire teacher certification process

Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical

Switching to a progressive income tax structure would drive Illinois even further behind Wisconsin

Lack of minority high school and college grads and wide prosperity gaps will only exacerbate the region’s growing employee shortage, business leaders fear

Wisconsin needs to face the reality of declining fuel-tax revenue and transition to per-mile charges

Fewer barriers mean barbers and stylists are now free to own and grow their businesses beyond shops and salons

Two studies look at Wisconsin’s complex community corrections system and why many on supervision are failing.

The Department of Transportation now has the opportunity to study tolling as a path forward to fix our crumbling infrastructure

A better way to help the disabled get to work.

An analysis of the accelerating outbound migration across the border to the Badger State

Department of Revenue’s guidelines on taxing ice cream cakes illustrate the absurd complexity of state’s sales tax system

Wisconsin’s law, which requires a judge to decide on expungement at the time of sentencing, is unlike any in the nation

The high cost of increasing the minimum wage in Wisconsin to $15

A primer on Wisconsin’s unsustainable transportation revenues

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In this short video excerpt, Badger Institute policy analyst Julie Grace testifies before the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee in support of Senate Bill 39, which will make necessary reforms to Wisconsin’s expungement law.