Wisconsin Economy
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Hospital Market Concentration in Wisconsin, 2018–2025: Evidence from Hospital Discharge Data
Seven of Wisconsin’s eight regional hospital markets are highly concentrated. All eight grew more concentrated from 2018 to 2025.
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Wisconsin’s Manufacturing Advantage Endured: The Manufacturing and Agriculture Credit, 2013–2025
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.
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Reports of Wisconsin’s Brain Drain Are Greatly Exaggerated: The State’s Real Talent Problem Is Who Doesn’t Come
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.
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Funding and Autonomy in Wisconsin Public Higher Education: A Response to the Wisconsin Technical College System
Wisconsin remains near the bottom nationally in its four-year-to-two-year funding ratio under alternative measures of enrollment.
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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.