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:

Wisconsin should choose the right side of the income tax divide
The choice Wisconsin leaders make about income tax policy will have important implications for the state’s future competitiveness and prosperity.

Data centers often bring faster connections to world
Geography matters for what’s called “latency,” the small but often important amount of time it takes signals to travel from a user to whatever data center holds the information he’s using.

Facts to help you decide whether Wisconsin children should be eligible for donor-funded education scholarships
What Wisconsinites need to know about how the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program works.

