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- Subject by subject, Wisconsin districts face higher rates of teacher turnover
- Milwaukee rents in national spotlight; rent caps not the solution
- Gov. Evers’ irresponsible budget
- Manitowoc and builder bend to make houses attainable
- Federal prosecutors in Madison have stopped prosecuting cannabis offenses
- Derail the Hop permanently
- Wisconsin cities can grow if they let housing markets work, say scholars
- Half of Wisconsin state employees may be working from home — though no one has a complete count
Browsing: State Budget
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.
In the past 30 years, metro Madison grew 45%; metro Milwaukee grew just 11%. What caused the difference in outcomes for two cities separated by only 75 miles? The answer lies in Wisconsin politics.
The funding disparity between UWM and UW-Madison reflects that the two institutions have sharply different histories and are in many ways two different animals.
One of the benefits of having 50 states, our so-called laboratories of democracy, is that we can examine different states’ policies and learn from them.
It’s amazing, the things we get worked up about — and the things we don’t.