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:
Public school leaders look forward to possible private donations for scholarships
Public school district leaders are thinking about what scholarships from private donations through a new federal tax credit program the will do for their students.
Why did New Richmond’s bathroom policy make girls give way?
When girls at New Richmond High School complained that their privacy was being invaded, those authorities in essence told girls they were the problem.
Restoring accountability in Wisconsin government
Wisconsin’ recent failures of accountability share a common feature: Power has increasingly shifted away from the Legislature and toward governors, agencies, courts and other institutions that operate further from direct democratic control.
