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:

U.S. House defangs federal protection of gray wolves in Wisconsin
The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday passed a bill that would remove the state’s rapidly expanding and aggressive gray wolf population from the endangered species list.

Marquette poll finds 80 percent of Americans trust government ‘only some of the time’ or ‘never’
Widespread, intergenerational skepticism of government is not merely the result of America’s increasingly cutthroat politics.

Legislature balks as Evers demands millions for more food aid bureaucrats
Gov. Tony Evers is pressing the Legislature for $70 million to process FoodShare applications to stave off federal penalties that could cost state taxpayers as much as $225 million.

