Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

In the past, climate change has been a wedge issue between conservatives and liberals, but that tide appears to be turning.

Seventy-five parts per billion is a huge number when it comes to ground-level ozone pollution, says the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

BY MIKE NICHOLS | Dec. 15, 2014 Many years ago, after taking a job as a young reporter at the old…

In 2012, Democratic candidates successfully sold the narrative that Republicans were waging a war against American women. Consequently, exit polls found a significant gender gap.

Wisconsinites need to get used to the idea of electronic tolls on our freeways. It’s a free-market solution to an overwhelming problem: lack of cash to pay for modestly modern highways.

By now, there’s enough mythology surrounding the patterns and trends exhibited by the millennial generation to overwhelm any researcher.

Raising the minimum wage would boost the wages of some workers, but it also would result in fewer jobs.

Can we please stop using the word “outsourcing”?

The American Dream The left’s response to Paul Ryan’s attempt to change the national dialogue about poverty was, perhaps, predictable.…

Here we are again In a few weeks, Wisconsin voters will again get to decide whether to continue the conservative…

WPRI launches digital newsletter

Who’s really listening to all the talk about jobs in Wisconsin?

Milwaukee and some of its unheralded community groups and violence-fighting programs hold “the key to changing this country,” according to Robert Woodson Sr., one of America’s most influential and outspoken voices on welfare myths and finding new ways to combat poverty.  

Wisconsin news media are focused on the “sluggish” statewide, private-sector job growth numbers that are a little more than half…

Excerpts of a speech by Woodson Center President and founder Robert L. Woodson Sr. at the Wisconsin Center.

Excerpts of a speech by Woodson Center President and founder Robert L. Woodson Sr. at the Wisconsin Center.

It’s hard to find anyone in Kenosha or Racine counties these days who doesn’t support the construction of an $808 million Hard Rock casino on the site of the now-defunct Dairyland Greyhound Park

Will Mary Burke be the Democrats’ next Patrick Lucey?

Howatt replaces James Klauser

Heartland conservatism If there were any winners in the government shutdown, it may have been GOP governors, including Wisconsin’s Scott…