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Wisconsin has a new opportunity to help solve one of this country’s thorniest problems: the cost of healthcare for small businesses and employees without access to traditional group health insurance.

Wisconsin’s next Legislature and governor should work to ensure that more Wisconsin families can access the education they believe best serves their children.

Wisconsin labor and employment policy can, in some instances, tilt in the favor of insiders, impose costs on outsiders, and adversely affect the state’s economic performance.

How can there be one staff member for every seven students in Milwaukee Public Schools and yet classes as large as 34?

Wisconsin can strengthen its economic competitiveness by reducing unnecessary regulation, improving oversight of the regulatory process and making its legal environment more efficient and predictable for businesses

Madison is among the 50 costliest metros nationwide, yet most of Dane County remains open land that would seem to be an obvious place for single-family homes.

The Democratic Governors Association is falsely insinuating that the Badger Institute panned a “scheme” by gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany to eliminate Wisconsin’s income tax.

What works for Wisconsin housing is letting the market build: easing the zoning, lot size, and permitting rules that artificially constrain supply.

If Wisconsinites really do want our government to stop racially discriminating, we’ll need to put it in our constitution.

Wisconsin should replace its current graduated individual income tax with a single-rate structure and set that rate as low as fiscal conditions responsibly allow.

Good teachers are essential to school effectiveness and student achievement. What role does character formation play in keeping such educators in the classroom?

If Brittany Kinser wins Wisconsin’s race for state school superintendent, it would be the first victory over union-backed candidates since 1981.

Wisconsin’s governor talks of new 9.8% top tax rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

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What made it possible for Jaime’s family and for 90% of St. Thomas’ students is Wisconsin’s parental choice program, which lets some families direct their children’s state education aid to a school they choose.

Robin Vos, fresh off a victory that seals his role as Speaker of the Assembly and now coming on 30 years in local and state politics, threw out a couple olive branches at Gov. Tony Evers Thursday that cynics might say are just the post-election niceties that invariably morph into barbs and stiff-arms in the Capitol hallways.

Twenty months after Congress passed a bill that rained $2.53 billion down on Wisconsin, the governor’s office in sole charge of administering the funding, as well as  legislative audit and budget officials, have almost no idea of how all that money is being spent.

Do the state education bureaucrats, the schools of education, the consultants, the unions and the central offices know the one right way to teach math? That big test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, found that not once in the past two decades have Wisconsin’s public schools managed to make more than 41% of 8th-graders proficient in math.

Right after scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, came out, Wisconsin’s chief public school regulator, state Superintendent Jill Underly, issued a press release headlined, “Wisconsin elementary school students buck national trends in ‘National Report Card’ release.”

This is not true: Wisconsin’s scores fell by every measure since the last time children took the test, in 2019, just as scores fell for every other state.

Raising children, as can be fully appreciated only after you’ve done it, takes place in real time. They eat, sleep and grow whether you’re ready or not. So as parents supply children with the most crucial material treasure they ever will receive — a stable, loving home — many rely on some outside help in caring for their children while earning a living.