The top 20 highlights of the year
** Badger Institute's Best of 2019
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VIDEO: Taxpayers Taken for a Ride: The Milwaukee Streetcar
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Licensure reforms fuel entrepreneurs across Wisconsin. Fewer barriers mean barbers and stylists are now free to own and grow their businesses beyond shops and salons.
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VIDEO: Dental therapy: A proven remedy to oral care shortages in Wisconsin
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DNC convention: Who's gonna pay?
The Democratic Party’s track record and the event’s unknown price tag suggest taxpayers may be on the hook for Milwaukee’s July convention.
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A Badger Institute and Tax Foundation report offers a menu of reforms to foster opportunity and make Wisconsin more competitive.
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Wealth tax doomed Emil Seidel: Milwaukee's first socialist mayor blamed his 1912 re-election loss on his call to tax the assets of the rich.
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An analysis of the high economic cost of raising Wisconsin’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. Roughly 350,000 Wisconsin workers would lose their jobs, nearly one-third of all workers currently earning a wage below the proposed new minimum. The authors break down the potential job losses by industry.
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Why hiring the previously incarcerated is good for business: An employer handbook
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A green light for fixing Wisconsin's interstates: bipartisan legislative support for a tolling study likely exists and is validated by two major reports.
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One of the biggest challenges facing veterans and military spouses seeking employment is the state's occupational licensing regime that effectively fences people out of certain occupations.
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The growing fiscal calamity in Illinois is an opportunity to lure businesses and workers to the Badger State.
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The untold story of Milwaukee's socialist icon Victor Berger and his appaling views toward blacks, immigrants and women.
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Where dental therapy is longer in the tooth: A decade of dental therapy success in Minnesota
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Is it time to legalize marijuana in Wisconsin?
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Wisconsin's pro-growth, fiscally responsible policies are drawing an increasing number of Illinois residents to the state.
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Can you pass corrections reforms that cut the prison population, close prisons, save money and still maintain public safety? Former Michigan Senator John Proos explains how they did exactly that in the Great Lake State -- and how Wisconsin can do the same.
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Badger Institute President Mike Nichols on 620 WTMJ: Wisconsin's tax mix stifles opportunity and inhibits growth. The state is in need of long-term, systemic reform.
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Protecting history or promoting agendas?
The use of historic designation nowadays often has nothing to do with preservation.
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Badger Institute President Mike Nichols was on The Heritage Foundation podcast discussing federalism, The Hop and Milwaukee's "tracks to nowhere."
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Dental Therapists: A solution to Wisconsin's costly dental access problem?
Dental therapists could improve access, use and outcomes, while reducing economic costs associated with the dental care monopoly and unnecessary ER visits for dental treatment.
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