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- Building costs heading upward in first impact of bureaucrats being unleashed
- Want to truly help Wisconsin’s children? Stop using them as plaintiffs
- Wisconsin breweries no longer chugging along
- Financially illiterate high schoolers about to be taught a lesson
- Economics: The Rodney Dangerfield of modern politics
- A win for Wisconsin families: Childcare in the 2025-2027 biennial state budget
- Port Washington data center on track to by far be state’s largest electricity user
- ‘We still need to pave our roads’
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A further evaluation of the SAGE program
Wisconsin’s Regional Employment Growth The Wisconsin economy in the 1990s benefited from the long period of growth experienced by the…
The Objectives of the Research The…
Fugitives from the justice system
When NAFTA was ratified in 1994, we studied the issue an concluded it would benefit Wisconsin. Five years later, we examine our hypothesis and discover that NAFTA works.
What It Will Take to Make It Work
Between 1991 and 1998 the rates of both teen pregnancies and births fell across the nation: among teenagers ages 15-19,…
A myth that continues to exist in the minds of the public and many a government regulator is the notion…
Over the last decade no issue in Wisconsin has been more closely watched here and across the country than the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.
The Objectives of the Research The objectives of this wave of WPRI’s ongoing…
A review of current issues and trends
The path to fewer prisons
It is no wonder that the national debate in the early 1990s over universal health insurance was so acrimonious and…
Inflated claims, meager results
Wisconsin’s state government turned 150 years old this year. Over that time, Wisconsin state government has grown from a few…
The Objectives of the Research The objectives of this wave of WPRI’s ongoing research program continued to be to measure…
How have poor people responded to changes in the economy and in social welfare programs? It should surprise no one…
Is it an idea whose time has come (again)?
Plea bargaining, punishment, and the public interest
Is light rail the answer to metropolitan Milwaukee’s traffic problems?