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:
Without legislative change, dwindling ranks of young accountants will flee Wisconsin
The number of people getting accounting degrees at University of Wisconsin System schools plummeted from 868 in the 2019-20 school year to 625 in the 2023-24 school year.
Courage on Medicaid in the past helps Wisconsin now
Even if one isn’t moved by rising dependency, bigger government or the appalling waste of human potential, that immunity to fiscal disaster is enough to make Wisconsinites think: Thank God Wisconsin’s Republicans had a spine on Medicaid.
At center of America’s essential debate, Johnson says resist spending frenzy
The U.S. Senate has an opportunity to slow the growth of Medicaid, something that hasn’t been seriously tried for decades, Sen. Ron Johnson says.