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:
Taxpayers need more simplicity and transparency — not misleading arguments meant to stoke fears of successful choice schools
“Decoupling” is an excellent way to simplify Wisconsin school choice funding and eliminate choice’s impact on property taxpayers.
Plans, zoning and annexation form front lines for Wisconsin cities looking to build more housing
“The ideal situation is to have an alignment of the comprehensive plan and the zoning code to provide as many certainties as possible.”
We increasingly live in a world of unsolved crime
An analysis of federal data reveals that only 16 percent of violent crimes in Wisconsin’s region of the country result in an arrest of a suspect, and 4 percent of property crimes result in an arrest.
