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:
Failure of tax-and-schools deal offers chance to do better
Think of the failure of the $1.8 billion tax-and-spending deal between Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature as a second chance at better policy.
Big federal bucks so far produce a paltry 21 EV charging stations in Wisconsin
Millions of dollars have been spent on the aim to build 80 charging stations for electric vehicles at gas stations, hotels, and other venues across Wisconsin.
Behind the curtain, Evers administration diverts taxpayer money to fund environmental bureaucracies
The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature.
