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:

Generated image of an autonomous vehicle on a winding, rural road en route to a super market

Robocars vs. overpriced groceries

And the real reason Wisconsin won’t join the modern world and let cars operate without drivers With automated, driverless robotaxis carrying paying passengers in at least half a dozen cities, but none of them in Wisconsin because our state law will not permit it, you may wonder why we don’t just change our law. Why not update the state law

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