Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

“I get why the law is in place, but I’m not a threat to monopolize anything,” says restaurateur Justin Aprahamian.

In the past 30 years, metro Madison grew 45%; metro Milwaukee grew just 11%. What caused the difference in outcomes for two cities separated by only 75 miles? The answer lies in Wisconsin politics.

Lori A. Weyers, president of Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, says the IT worker shortage is reaching a “crisis” stage.

Only now are businesses realizing that traditional college curriculums are not meeting the growing demand of companies such as Epic and are turning to technical colleges to fill the gap.

The Dane County Child Support Agency will be rolling out a pilot program called the Forgiveness of Arrears for Completion of Education.

Some folks in Wisconsin believe that we are simply another part of the federal government and should march in lockstep.

Building new facilities often do little to alleviate the scourge of crime-ridden neighborhoods, which just get pushed to the background — until they explode.

Badger Institute President Mike Nichols testifies in favor of 2015 AB 32 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Labor on May 27, 2015

2015 AB 32 would eliminate the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage.

There’s ample evidence that Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law is harming taxpayers and contractors, frustrating good government servants and diverting resources away from those in need.

Five stories from around Wisconsin illustrate the need for repeal of prevailing wage.
Authors include Dave Daley, Lori Holly, Greg Pearson, Betsy Thatcher
and Jan Uebelherr

The harder we make it for young people to get on the first rung of the job ladder, the harder it will be to move up.

Come hear author Charles C.W. Cooke explain

The new year brought new signs of momentum for the Wisconsin economy.

Rather than being portrayed as the enemy of low-income blacks, police should be seen instead as the community’s strongest allies against recurring violence.

Badger Institute President Mike Nichols testifies in favor of 2015 SB 44 before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Labor and Government Reform on February 24, 2015

2015 SB 44 would prohibit as a condition of employment membership in a labor organization or payments to a labor organization

The fight over right-to-work has lots of subplots – but a big one involves the role some unions play in training workers.

Even Democrats favor a right-to-work law that would end compulsory union dues from unwilling workers Back in the 1990s, Tiffany…

In a January article comparing the economic status of the black community in 52 of the nation’s  largest metropolitan areas, policy expert Joel Kotkin ranked Atlanta and Washington, D.C., among cities with the most prosperous black populations and ranked Milwaukee dead last.

Analysis shows the economic benefits of a right-to-work law.

Like many families from the city, every summer while I was growing up, my family would pack up the car and take a trip to the hinterlands of Wisconsin.