Browsing: Reports

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?

The Wisconsin Works (W-2) program has garnered substantial attention for revolutionizing expectations about the obligations of public assistance recipients. Less…

Looking at Hmong children clearly shows that a functional, supportive family is still the single best barometer for educational success in our public schools.

A review of university course materials

After languishing for 150 years in the backwash of economic development in the Green Bay area, the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin (hereinafter “the Tribe”) is experiencing its first generation of prosperity. The prosperity is the result of a bingo and casino gambling franchise, hard work, and a good location. The Tribe is using

By Gordon Black The Objectives of the Research The objectives of this wave of WPRI’s ongoing research program continued to…

As Wisconsin grapples with the question of educational reform, one area that has not been explored is the role of the schools of education and the certification of our teachers.

By Sammis White, Ph.D. The Wisconsin economy has continued to generate new jobs. Aside from a modest slowdown in 1991-92,…

Budgets are tight. Problems are tough. State and local governments have increased responsibilities, with­ out more money. Problems cut across…

What’s the connection?

Moving from bureaucracy to accountability

By William Thompson, Ph.D., Ricardo Gazel, Dan Rickman Gambling win or lose took my emotions. I don’t want to feel miserable anymore. member of a Gamblers Anonymous group in Wisconsin This is a study about social costs of gambling in Wisconsin. In April 1995, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute released a report entitled The Economic

What the textbooks teach

A profile of urban inmates in Wisconsin prisons

By Lawrence Mead, Ph.D. Between 1987, when Tommy Thompson took office as governor, and 1994, Wisconsin cut its welfare caseload…

Public versus private

By Daniel Alesch, Ph.D. The Green Bay Packers, Inc., is America’s only publicly owned, not-for-profit, major-league sports franchise. The team has survived, even flourished, for 77 years in Green Bay – a city of 97,000 people in northeastern Wisconsin. The Packers team is an anomaly. National Football League rules prohibit replicating the Green Bay model.