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- Steps for lawmakers to allow nuclear renaissance
- The new path for affordable and flexible healthcare for Wisconsin small businesses and their employees
- Parents increasingly want kids in independent charter and parental choice schools — but face obstacles
- The importance of keeping Act 10 and right-to-work, and how to create additional opportunity for workers
- Many new staff, same old class size
- Reducing regulatory burdens and improving Wisconsin’s business climate
- Why can’t metro Madison build enough houses for its high demand?
- What the Badger Institute has actually said about income taxes
Browsing: Media
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
The fiscal calamity looming for our neighbor to the south could help lure businesses and workers to the Badger State
As with manufacturing property, valuations should be done by the state, with owners being able to appeal to a panel of tax experts rather than a local review board
The Wisconsin Criminal Justice Coalition, led by the Badger Institute, offers policy ideas for combating recidivism, fostering opportunity, saving taxpayer money and maintaining public safety.

