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- 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
- How Wisconsin can reverse its drift toward unaffordable homes
Browsing: Reports
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?
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…

