Exploring the mismatch between strong labor, business inputs and our lagging productivity and income outputs Executive summary Wisconsin’s economy displays many of the conditions that typically precede stronger growth in…
Spiraling costs, scant benefit from rating system suggest it’s time for a new approach Executive summary While parents play the most important role in early childhood development, having reliable and affordable childcare is…
Development-spurring TIF has consequences in Wisconsin’s taxpayer-protecting levy limits, but there’s a way around tradeoff “There’s good TIFs and bad TIFs,” as one economic development figure, the head of the Metropolitan…
Sales tax exemption isn’t a subsidy but a common shield against increasing consumers’ prices with hidden levies Wisconsin’s sales tax exemption for data center equipment is increasingly controversial, with many policymakers…
New study finds school choice is ‘like skipping a grade’ for working-class kids, yet critics would slam the door A major party’s likely nominee for governor, state Rep. Francesca Hong, says she favors good schools. “Every…
Wisconsin students learn what markets do for society, which a leading candidate seems to ignore In 2018, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction adopted the Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies to guide economics…
Democrats, meanwhile, blocking release of Medicaid enrollee information Ron Johnson, the third-term Republican U.S. senator from Oshkosh, is using his new perch as chair of the Senate Budget Committee to spotlight rampant…
In the summer of 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law significant welfare reforms passed by a Republican-led Congress. The centerpiece of the reform package was a set of strong work requirements as a condition of…
Teens see the fallacy of the abolish-and-defund narrative One recent July morning in a riverside woods west of Eau Claire, 13 high-schoolers took turns firing practice versions of PepperBalls at an old steel drum and…
Perhaps a less lopsided faculty is ours for the asking, but have elected officials insisted? A political scientist laid out the grim numbers about lopsided ideology among his fellow Florida professors — whose donations go to…
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