What you want from Wisconsin in 2025
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What will it take to make Wisconsin among the best places in America to live, work and do business? The Badger Institute has pulled together some of the best minds in the state and the country to offer answers. The Mandate for Madison is a book full of ideas and solutions about public policy centered on how to improve Wisconsin, offering research and recommendations from a remarkable set of scholars who bring extraordinary insight into Wisconsin’s situation. These options offer a fast start to correct the problems holding back our state.
Badger Institute’s latest:

At center of America’s essential debate, Johnson says resist spending frenzy
The U.S. Senate has an opportunity to slow the growth of Medicaid, something that hasn’t been seriously tried for decades, Sen. Ron Johnson says.

Real answer to siting nuclear plants: ‘Yes, here.’
Predictions of rising Wisconsin power demand are driven by plans for data centers, the electricity-gulping organs of the online economy.

Taxpayers need more simplicity and transparency — not misleading arguments meant to stoke fears of successful choice schools
“Decoupling” is an excellent way to simplify Wisconsin school choice funding and eliminate choice’s impact on property taxpayers.