A majority of Wisconsin voters believe the state’s criminal justice system needs significant improvements, expungement law needs reform; voters overwhelmingly agree the criminal justice system should ensure people are less likely to commit another crime & help people become productive, law-abiding citizens.

Incarceration is rare for pot-only convictions; coupled with municipal policies, Wisconsin has effectively decriminalized marijuana

Coalition releases recommendations to guide Wisconsin policymakers

Badger Institute urges legislators to advance this meaningful reform

New policy brief focuses on seven key reforms

Brief suggests ways to make officer discipline fair, quick, transparent and decisive

Parents with disabilities or health limitations often time out of the program or end up on disability insurance

Badger Institute urges legislators to mandate better statewide data

The Wisconsin Legislature and Governor Evers worked together this spring to pass a bipartisan COVID-19 response package that included several policy reforms recommended by the Wisconsin Free Market Coalition.

Economic impact varies widely across Wisconsin counties

Bill includes coalition recommendations for addressing the crisis

The unprecedented COVID crisis has devastated Wisconsin families, businesses and schools. The coming weeks will be deeply challenging as the state tries to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Now, more than ever, public policy matters.

A free-market coalition of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin, the Badger Institute, and MacIver Institute have pooled their resources to offer some solutions and policy recommendations to assist the state’s workers and businesses, provide more certainty during the crisis, and spur a quick and lasting recovery.

After Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order to cut red tape on medical licensing, the Badger Institute, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, The MacIver Institute and Americans for Prosperity urge the governor and state Legislature to continue to cut red tape to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Wisconsin.

Policies linked to work are critical to lifting people out of poverty

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

A tolling system on our interstate highways will make sure that all cars using our roads, even those from out of state, will contribute toward their upkeep and maintenance.

State funding for local roads should be used only for projects that create better and more efficient transportation routes or spur economic development.

Martin will expand the Badger Institute’s social media engagement, improve user friendliness of the website and grow the institute’s reach throughout the Badger State.

Revocation study looks at Wisconsin’s complex community corrections system and why many on supervision are failing.