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The Hop, a $128 million streetcar that travels a 2.1-mile loop in downtown Milwaukee, is a classic boondoggle made possible by federal grants (i.e., taxpayer money). Meanwhile, the Joseph Project, a Milwaukee transportation enterprise that rejects government funding, is helping central city residents secure good-paying manufacturing jobs in neighboring counties. With a small fleet of church vans (most of them donated), the Joseph Project creates taxpayers instead of fleecing them.

Video shows how The Hop fleeces taxpayers while the Joseph Project creates them.

Nationally and across the states, policy-makers from both parties are supporting less burdensome licensure rules

Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical

Lack of minority high school and college grads and wide prosperity gaps will only exacerbate the region’s growing employee shortage, business leaders fear

Fewer barriers mean barbers and stylists are now free to own and grow their businesses beyond shops and salons

Two studies look at Wisconsin’s complex community corrections system and why many on supervision are failing.

The high cost of increasing the minimum wage in Wisconsin to $15

What is occupational licensing? How does it affect labor markets, wages, prices and interstate migration? Morris Kleiner, professor and AFL-CIO chair in Labor Policy at the University of Minnesota and author of “At What Cost? State and National Estimates of the Economic Cost of Occupational Licensing,” discusses his research at the Badger Institute’s Policy Symposium.

Badger Institute analysis: Current restrictions undermine lawmakers’ intent, create obstacles to employment.

New report doesn’t include comparisons with other states and policy recommendations

The fiscal calamity looming for our neighbor to the south could help lure businesses and workers to the Badger State

Authors: Even a small increase would have large economic impact.

Numbers and nuggets from trends in Wisconsin — on everything from the state’s tax rankings to our workforce shortage to the growth in occupational licensing to corrections to the transportation funding dilemma to the decline of the mainstream media.

Measure eliminates Wisconsin’s arbitrary higher exam scores, which had fenced out many aspiring chiropractors.

Wisconsin’s ‘arbitrary’ exam scores fencing out many young professionals

Institute welcomes first member of new Visiting Fellows Program.

Badger State requires higher score on national exam than most other states

Palmer College chiropractic student Amanda Berkley testifies in favor of 2017 AB 834 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform on January 18, 2018

2017 AB 834 would lower score required for successful completion of chiropractic examinations.

Several regulations removed from the books, freeing professionals from onerous and unneeded requirements