Oct 21, 2022 | Wisconsin Voices Blog
From IRG Director of Environmental Policy Ed Eberle: What happened? This week Tim Michels echoed an IRG-backed idea to split the DNR – a notoriously complex, outdated and overly-bureaucratic agency – into two separate agencies to better serve the needs of...
Oct 14, 2022 | Wisconsin Voices Blog
1. What trend are you most concerned about for the future? The Workforce crisis. As an entrepreneur in the talent space, I help business leaders address these woes every day. We need policies that retain grads from the UW System and attract bright individuals to start...
Oct 14, 2022 | Wisconsin Voices Blog
From IRG Executive Vice President Chris Reader: Shared Revenue is the tax money that the state collects through sales and income taxes and then doles out around the state to local governments like cities, towns, villages, and counties. State taxpayers send over...
Oct 7, 2022 | Wisconsin Voices Blog
From Rick Graber: Recently, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) confirmed the predictions of parents and educators everywhere. Learning loss since the pandemic has been tremendous. NAEP scores released last month showed that all the gains students...
Oct 7, 2022 | Wisconsin Voices Blog
1. What technology or trend are you most excited about for the future? Autonomous vehicles. Transportation is at the cusp of transformation and it’s fascinating when you think about the societal impacts. During my time serving at The Office of the Commissioner...
Oct 7, 2022 | Wisconsin Voices Blog
Context from IRG Senior Research Director Quinton Klabon: What happened? It’s test score season. We now know how children struggled in 2022. But we are often asked, “Are we getting our taxes’ worth?” Let’s compare districts with similar poverty levels using 2021’s...
