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The importance of keeping Act 10 and right-to-work, and how to create additional opportunity for workers

October 22, 2026

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

The only remedy for government discrimination is to make it stop discriminating

How to overcome Wisconsin’s income tax competitiveness problem

Billions in private donor support for students could be ‘largest investment in education ever’ in America

Is 5.9 million acres of government-owned land enough?

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Years in the making, free-market dental solution has Wisconsin grinning

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New Wisconsin bill directly solves the problem with growing healthcare costs

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Legislators want to give tens of millions of free lunches to students who don’t need them

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Supreme battle shaping up over voter ID

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One Badger Institute staffer’s personal experience with the Kia Boyz crime wave

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Sorry, but retirees shouldn’t get special tax treatment

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Wisconsin needs an explicit constitutional amendment to rein in gubernatorial goofiness

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The Economic Impact of a Right-to-Work Law on Wisconsin

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Milwaukee’s Quiet Crisis: 10 years later

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Raising Wisconsin’s Minimum Wage: Who would be helped? Who would be hurt?

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Can State Pull Its Punches? New Tax Policy Needed to Help Wisconsin Prosper

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