Wisconsin’s Love Affair with Its Technical Colleges: Seventh and Forty-Third, Wisconsin
Wisconsin ranks 7th nationally in public support per student for its technical colleges—and 43rd for its universities.
Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy
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
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Wisconsin can win the AI buildout without sticking families and manufacturers with the bill. Build the power. Protect local control. End special deals. Make large users pay their own costs.
It is a budget story. WI competes in markets with a budget model built for a slower world. The state effectively constrains what the university can charge and directly limits what it can borrow.
Wisconsin's skilled workforce gap isn't a pipeline problem. The state meets or exceeds national averages in high school completion, college enrollment, and in-state attendance. The bigger challenges: demographics, talent attraction, and high-skill retention.
What inflation took from Wisconsin households and who keeps the change?
UW–Madison is a top research university charging a resident price that ranks 12th-lowest of the 38 public AAU universities, because for a decade that price was frozen by political decision.
Wisconsin football posted back-to-back losing seasons (5-7, 4-8) for the first time since 1991-92. We trace the collapse to the NIL era's structural transformation — and the economic effects are already emerging in Dane County.