The Christian Science Monitor reports that Wisconsin had the 7th worst setback in terms of job losses in the nation over the last decade. Their analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that Wisconsin’s...
[Milwaukee, Wisconsin] MacIver News Service – For the first time in history, the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system will exceed $100,000.
That staggering figure was revealed...
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As reported earlier, the Wisconsin Global Warming Bill, dubbed the Clean Energy Jobs Act by its supporters, assumes that the price of carbon-based energy will increase due to the establishment of a...
MacIver News Service – [Madison, Wisc...] On Thursday, the Wisconsin Senate passed legislation to create a new health insurance program for more than 20,000 Wisconsin residents currently on a waiting list for a different,...
Wisconsin School District Justifies Unusual Stimulus Spending –
A $416,219.32 payment to WEA Trust for health insurance and $237,861.68 to utility companies from the New Holstein School District raises questions about how...
MacIver News Service - [Madison, Wisc...] On Tuesday the Wisconsin Senate delayed action on a bill to create a new health insurance program for more than 20,000 Wisconsin residents currently on a waiting list for a different,...
[Madison, Wisc...] The Free Market Voice for Wisconsin has a couple of new homes. The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, a free market think tank, has opened a new office across from the State Capitol in Madison and has...
Within the next five years, Wisconsin must double its use of energy from renewable sources to reach a level of 10 percent of all eelctrity sold in Wisconsin.
Right now, Wisconsin lawmakers are considering increasing that mandate...
Welcome to the inaugural ‘MacIver Minute’ feature. Periodically, we will step away from the day to day public policy debates going on in Wisconsin and Washington, DC and offer a brief look at an interesting person or...
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[Madison, Wisc...] It’s more important to get BadgerCare Plus Basic done fast, than it is to get it done perfectly, Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Waunakee) repeatedly said at a Senate hearing Thursday....
