EVENT – How We Lost Faith in the American Dream — and How to Get It Back
Please join us on October 19 for a talk with Lee E. Ohanian of UCLA and Hoover Institution
Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy
Please join us on October 19 for a talk with Lee E. Ohanian of UCLA and Hoover Institution
Seven of Wisconsin's eight regional hospital markets are highly concentrated. All eight grew more concentrated from 2018 to 2025.
How Wisconsin fell behind in college football's new market, and how to make the rebuild last
For every 100 manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin’s border counties in 2012, there were about 117 in 2025. Across the state line, 100 became 96.
Most colleges don’t have Harvard’s admissions problem. At Harvard, seats are scarce. At many colleges and programs, the scarce thing is the student.
Wisconsin’s college-educated residents do not leave at unusually high rates. The deeper weakness is that relatively few educated newcomers arrive, especially from far away and among people born in other states.
Wisconsin remains near the bottom nationally in its four-year-to-two-year funding ratio under alternative measures of enrollment.
Wisconsin ranks 7th nationally in public support per student for its technical colleges—and 43rd for its universities.
Wisconsin has spent decades losing too much young talent. It has so far avoided an Illinois-style high-income outflow. The next governor should try to fix the first without creating the second.
Wisconsin hospital prices are 25.6% higher than Illinois for the same inpatient services. The gap is remarkably consistent across hospitals, procedures, and payers