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:

How to strengthen the climb from the safety net
Wisconsin’s next governor and Legislature should strengthen the state’s safety net by focusing it more clearly on work, family stability and upward mobility.

The silence breaks: Accountability at last for those who make Milwaukee life unlivable
“The days of white liberal guilt are coming to an end and thank God for it.”

Data centers could be a godsend — if communities let them
A growing number of Wisconsin communities are choosing to act against considerable economic interest and sit out the data center revolution.

