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- A Badger Institute policy report: Character education and teacher retention
- Time for UW-Madison to do away with ethnic studies requirement
- A foolish law wages war against homemade shindigs
- An estate tax would harm Wisconsin’s economy
- Assembly clears bill to tackle fears of data center spiking power rates
- Governor Evers’ property tax relief plan fails to constrain property tax growth
- Data center naysayers should consider what the future would have brought to Port Washington
- Game over: How a professor bungled the facts of Wisconsin school choice
Browsing: Media
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
Context and Trends
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.
Wisconsin should join neighbors Minnesota and Michigan, and several other states, in authorizing the creation of these licensed mid-level professionals
The Foxconn lesson: State should level the playing field, not offer firm-specific incentives
Wisconsin’s deal should be scrapped for reasons far beyond the possible switch from factory jobs to research jobs
Commission staff adds expensive requirement to solar farm project without considering the cost or whether a bird-death problem even exists…
A solution to Wisconsin’s costly dental access problem?
A guide to fair, simple, pro-growth reform
How Wisconsin policy punishes low-income families for getting married – and what to do about it
February 2019
Fair-chance hiring laws may hurt the job-seekers they aim to help
Overcoming a mountain of occupational regulation in Wisconsin requires more than baby steps
New report doesn’t include comparisons with other states and policy recommendations
Bipartisan legislative support for a tolling study likely exists and is validated by two major reports

