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- Chronic Absenteeism remains extremely high in districts across Wisconsin
- Settled: Pandemic school lockdowns hurt Wisconsin kids badly and were pointless
- Residents of Glidden and Jacobs a rare breed — and getting rarer
- MPS enrollment, often overstated, has plummeted 42% since peak
- Milwaukee’s list of half-used school buildings rises to 21
- Badger Institute urges “no” vote on MPS referendum
- Voters will decide if legislators get say over federal spending
- Number of half-used MPS buildings up to at least 20
Browsing: State Budget
Over 180 credit unions and banks across Wisconsin already offer student loan refinancing products and/or student loans.
State government needn’t have a hand in retirement-savings fix; private-sector options already proliferate
Last month, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue released data showing the state’s general fund tax collections for fiscal year (FY) 2019 were up nearly $1.2 billion, or 7.4 percent, from FY 2018, and nearly $703 million higher than anticipated when the state’s FY 2018-19 budget was adopted.
Claims that the streetcar swayed major development decisions in downtown Milwaukee are off track
A primer on Wisconsin’s unsustainable transportation revenues
Context and Trends
Income tax credits paired with numerous tax increases.
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
New Badger Institute book finds federal grants deprive us of our money, liberty and trust.
How federal grants are depriving us of our money, liberty and trust in government – and what we can do about it. This book by the Badger Institute urges states to push back.
An empowered treasurer could be an independent voice for fiscal sanity
Institute and Tax Foundation moving forward with analysis of state tax structure and policy recommendations for 2019 budget.
Private contractors help states grab more U.S. dollars at the expense of serving children and the poor
Federal regulations force school districts to spend that money or face funding cuts
Wisconsin’s huge investment hinges on the ever-evolving world of display technology
And how tax reform and transportation upgrades can help Wisconsin take full advantage
It’s budget time in Madison. Get out your wallet.
More than it used to be, but Mayor Barrett fails to count all the state’s funding to the city or how much other communities give
Litscher: “We’re in a slow creep”
On Jan. 24, 2017, Mike Nichols, WPRI president, and Dan Benson, editor of the Project for 21st Century Federalism, testified in Madison before the Assembly Committee on Federalism and Interstate Relations. Here is a transcript of their presentation.