The Wisconsin Policy Forum, a nonpartisan research organization, released a report on March 17th which identified that barriers at every step of becoming a teacher are stalling people of color from joining the state’s teacher workforce. The report documents specific barriers and challenges people of color encounter when pursuing an educational career that are not […]
What’s In the 2021-23 State Budget?
In March of 2020, Wisconsin Policy Forum’s Jason Stein appeared on WORT’s Evening News to talk about a Policy Forum report on Wisconsin State Government’s ability to weather an economic recession. The report rated the state’s financial resiliency as “about average” among U.S. states. With the global pandemic still in its early stages, the word […]
Declining Casino Revenues Present Challenges for State and Local Budge...
Photo by Fielperson on Pixabay. Wisconsin is projected to receive at least $70 million less over the next two years than originally expected in gaming revenue from Wisconsin’s tribal nations, according to a study from the Wisconsin Policy Forum. The study attributes the downward trend to the pandemic, which has casinos temporarily closed or operating […]
Reviewing Wisconsin’s 2021 State Budget + Legislature Updates
In their latest report, Wisconsin Policy Forum finds that next year, Gov. Tony Evers and lawmakers will likely confront the state’s toughest budget challenge in a decade. On today’s first segment, we learn more about the 2021–2022 state budget with Wisconsin Policy Forum’s research director, Jason Stein. Then, state representative Dianne Hesselbein joins us to […]
Wisconsin voters approve near-record number of school funding referend...
Wisconsin voters approved 43 out of 51 school funding referendums in this fall’s election. Combined with those approved in the spring election, voters have passed a total of 95 school funding measures this year. According to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum, the near-record approval rate is the second highest since 1993 and […]
Analyzing Madison’s 2021 Proposed Budget
The city of Madison has entered the dead heat of budget season, as Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and members of the city council debate her proposed 2021 Operating and Capital budgets. This year has proven an exceptionally difficult one for the city to navigate — as the COVID-19 pandemic has mired the budgeting process in economic […]
