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Sammis White, Ph.D. The consensus in Wisconsin and the nation is that the current welfare system must be changed. Welfare today neither raises the poor out of poverty nor does it make them any less dependent.  A new approach to welfare must be employed –  one that both reduces poverty and moves recipients, as responsible

By Richard Cebula According to a new set of projections, many industries in the state of Wisconsin are likely to benefit significantly over time from the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In the aggregate, over the next five years, as many as 3,300 jobs could be created in Wisconsin as a

An agenda for the 21st century

The perception of the Madison school district is that it is one of the top urban districts. That’s why it’s so perplexing to find that black students are doing as poorly as they are in Milwaukee in Racine

Barriers to reform in the Milwaukee Public Schools

Can it cut crime?

Sammis White, Ph.D. The health care system in the United States is not healthy. Health care costs are high and…

By Mark Alan Hughes, Ph.D. In this report, we present new findings from the 1990 Census to document changes during the last twenty years in the demographic and economic conditions of metropolitan Milwaukee. In particular, we present the striking divergence of conditions in the city and the surrounding suburbs. Among our findings:  Suburbanization is a

Public funds for private schools, early childhood through post-secondary

Dale Belman, Ph.D. & John Heywood, Ph.D. The setting of public sector compensation should command the attention of all citizens. The level of such compensation helps determine both the competence and efficiency of government services. Too high a level wastes the resources of state and local governments, depriving them of the opportunity to address other

The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program is one of the most talked about issues in Wisconsin and the nation, and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is trying to kill it.

Every day in the state of Wisconsin, there are approximately 45,000 convicted criminals who are still under sentence and are living in our neighborhoods and communities

On any given day, 83% of the offenders who have been convicted of a serious crime in Wisconsin are not in prison: they are on the streets, while 17% of criminals are in Wisconsin prisons

By John Wagner The State of Wisconsin has approved a significant expansion of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). Supporters…

How effective is the Department of Public Instruction?

A regional high school of excellence

By Simon Fass, Ph.D. – April 1991 The end of the United States’ military involvement in Indochina marked the beginning of a tide of refugee immigration from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos that would accumulate to almost one million individuals between 1975 and 1990. Tucked away in this flow of immigrants was a people from Laos

A survey of prisoners and an analysis of the net benefit of imprisonment in Wisconsin

By Tonia Devon, Ph.D., Rustum Roy, Ph.D. State programs in science and technology in the late seventies and eighties were largely responses by governors to the steady downturn in the manufacturing sector of the economy, which in the northeast had become a serious problem.  They were also responding to international competition and the perception that

Where does the money go?