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- Taxpayers getting jobbed
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- End to federal public TV subsidies would save $2 million in Milwaukee
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- Courage on Medicaid in the past helps Wisconsin now
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“How often do ethics change in massage therapy?” she wonders.
“We’re not playing with people’s lives. We’re playing with people’s hair,” Krissy Hudack says.
Beauty school graduate just wants to work but has been thwarted for over a year.
Sunshine Week: Federal grant funding obscures how government is funded, diffuses accountability
For close to a year now, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has been wrestling with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain a report on what steps
More than it used to be, but Mayor Barrett fails to count all the state’s funding to the city or how much other communities give
St. Croix Chippewa agree to fix grants review process.
Admitting students with little chance to graduate helps no one; tying UW System funding to graduation rates would force change.
Litscher: “We’re in a slow creep”
The EITC promotes the expansion of the labor market by increasing the reward to work, while at the same time making it more attractive for businesses to hire.
Managing federal education dollars is costing Wisconsin taxpayers millions and benefiting children hardly at all.
Washington’s grip on state schools continues to grow.
On Jan. 24, 2017, Mike Nichols, WPRI president, and Dan Benson, editor of the Project for 21st Century Federalism, testified in Madison before the Assembly Committee on Federalism and Interstate Relations. Here is a transcript of their presentation.
Many Wisconsin high school graduates arrive at college unprepared and end up in remedial math and writing classes, which makes completing a degree unlikely.
One of the rumored top choices President-elect Donald Trump was mulling to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was Rob Astorino
We need to rethink how we use the faculty at the non-Ph.D.-granting schools in Wisconsin to improve the lot of the state’s students.
Data show people of all political persuasions also favor a govern local approach to solving many of our problems.
The questions we should be asking, however, are: Why aren’t our problems getting better? What value does the Washington bureaucracy add?
Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy is seeking a forensic audit of all federal monies awarded to the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa after 113 tribal members sent him a petition alleging mismanagement of federal grants.
“Our philosophy used to be procure (funding) and then figure out how to use (the money),” Director of Business Services Andy Chromy said.
Hundreds of districts in Wisconsin and thousands more nationwide are saddled with the Single Audit of federal funds that feeds a bloated bureaucracy in Washington while adding little or no value to educational efforts.