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:

Transportation policy for the way Wisconsinites actually want to travel
Wisconsin transportation policy should begin with the people who use the system: where they want to go, how they want to get there and how those choices may change as new technologies become available.

Having two parents matters; so does data
One important factor remains missing from Wisconsin’s education dashboards: family structure.

Do Madison’s schools underperform Milwaukee’s? Let’s talk about it.
Truth be told: Madison Metropolitan School District is as troubled as Milwaukee Public Schools is.

