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:

Where the precipitous drop in birthrates is a very, very good thing

Teen birthrates are a small fraction of what they used to be As some of America’s most prominent conservative voices push the pronatalist movement, there’s been a dramatic decrease in pregnancies and births among one particular subset of Wisconsin females that should get more attention — and praise. Births to teenage girls in the Badger State have plummeted. In 1990,

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