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- 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
- Much to like in Republicans’ tax plan
- End to federal public TV subsidies would save $2 million in Milwaukee
- Without legislative change, dwindling ranks of young accountants will flee Wisconsin
- Courage on Medicaid in the past helps Wisconsin now
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In response to a tight state labor market, our latest report offers strategies for increasing labor force participation. The authors find that increasing the participation rate by just 1 percentage point would increase gross state product by a whopping $667 annually per resident.
Many taxpayers will no longer benefit from state and local tax deduction
An empowered treasurer could be an independent voice for fiscal sanity
Broad-based Wisconsin tax reform should be the goal
Numbers and nuggets from trends in Wisconsin — on everything from the state’s tax rankings to our workforce shortage to the growth in occupational licensing to corrections to the transportation funding dilemma to the decline of the mainstream media.
Sunshine Week: Records request illustrates lack of transparency of federal school funding
It would seem a simple question to ask of any public agency: How much money do you spend and on what?
Gov. Walker says he’ll decide on Opportunity Zone designations by March 21 federal deadline Editor’s note: On March 21, Gov. Scott…
Special needs students are left behind because of inequitable allocation of federal resources, administrators say in survey
Residents in high-tax states like ours are stung harder by cap on state/local tax deduction
Wisconsin’s ‘arbitrary’ exam scores fencing out many young professionals
Wisconsin ranks 38th in the latest state highway systems report.
‘I have to do a lot of paperwork and spend time testing my kids instead of teaching my kids’
Federal requirements in special ed are especially burdensome, educators tell Badger Institute in survey
Badger State requires higher score on national exam than most other states
Priorities should include tax reform, corrections, professional licensure and tolling
Funding regulations hamper districts and don’t improve education, local officials say in survey
NBC26 in Green Bay reports on two bills signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker modifying licensure requirements for professions like cosmetologists and barbers. “It’ll make it easier for them to gain entry into these professions,” said Badger Institute VP Michael Jahr.
Several regulations removed from the books, freeing professionals from onerous and unneeded requirements
Paperwork takes staff away from daily responsibilities and educating kids, officials say.
By Julie Grace
November 13, 2017
Hordes of Wisconsin government workers are employed to ‘check boxes’ for the feds