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- Financially illiterate high schoolers about to be taught a lesson
- Economics: The Rodney Dangerfield of modern politics
- A win for Wisconsin families: Childcare in the 2025-2027 biennial state budget
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Measure creates universal recognition, waives fees for low-income workers, expands opportunity for ex-offenders
With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses
Relentless bureaucratic creep undermines competition and hurts consumers
Policymakers will need to look to reforms to address overcrowding issues
Governments are instrumental in wars, natural disasters and, we’ve found, pandemics.
Accepting out-of-state credentials should continue after the crisis ends
A statewide and county-by-county analysis
Cursive writing benefits learning and students’ brains
Outdated Wisconsin law hampers electric automaker’s direct-sales business model
Plan would take into account regional risk factors and let consumers decide
Move would stress support and health care systems throughout the state
Wisconsinites rush to help neighbors in need during crisis, prove fundamental goodness of civil society
Highway funding, which relies on the gas tax, will be hard hit as fuel sales decline
Wisconsin’s minimum markup law is particularly egregious when Wisconsinites are suffering
Wisconsin would be worse off had responsible budgeting not produced healthy surplus, rainy day fund
By David Fladeboe
April 6, 2020
In wake of COVID-19, telehealth regulations have been loosened; those changes should remain even after crisis is over
These principles should guide Wisconsin lawmakers as they confront the current public health and economic crisis
Home detention one option for helping prevent virus’ spread while maintaining public safety
Arizona, Pennsylvania paved way for full licensure recognition
Lawmakers should streamline regulations so more people can work