Mark Lisheron

2 weeks ago | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron

More than half of the employees in the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and more than 40% in the Department of Administration still work remotely, five years after COVID sent them home. Numbers collected by the Badger Institute suggest that as many as half of Wisconsin’s 29,000 state employees do not work at all in a state office and that more than 24,000 work either full- or part-time from home. Those are only extrapolations. No one — in Gov.

1 month ago | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron

Unlike many places in Wisconsin, there is no housing crisis in the Village of Hobart because its leaders have done something developers say is exceedingly rare — making it as easy and predictable as possible for them to do business there. With approximately 11,000 residents, Hobart is one of the fastest growing communities in one of the fastest growing counties, Brown, in the state.

1 month ago | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron

First in a series on housing in the Badger State, Out of reach: Wisconsin’s housing crisis and hope for the American Dream. Jason Joling was a dream candidate for a dream job in a dream location. Just one problem: He couldn’t afford to live there. “They offered me the job and told me, ‘We expect you to be living up here within four months,’” Joling said. “I said, ‘That ain’t gonna happen.’ I had been on Zillow and there wasn’t anything we could afford. I told them I could give them 50 hours a week.

2 months ago | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron |Mike Nichols

The mainstream media has tried to turn the Trump Administration’s focus on federal grants into just another squabble between the two political tribes. It’s actually part of a much more fundamental dispute over whether Americans should adhere to the Tenth Amendment. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” states that part of the Bill of Rights.

Jan 24, 2025 | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron

Wisconsin voters will on the same day this April choose a new state Supreme Court justice and also decide whether the state’s voter ID law will become part of the state Constitution — issues yoked by what almost certainly will happen in the months thereafter. State Sen. Van Wanggaard, chair of the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, said during a committee hearing on Jan.