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The Badger Institute - Free Markets, Opportunity, Prosperity. Formerly the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: rujan 2009.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    13. stu 2019.

    1.2 million Wisconsinites live in dental care shortage areas. Children, seniors, veterans & the disabled are most likely to lack access to oral care. Here’s a successful effort to provide dental care to underserved populations without relying on taxpayers

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  2. What is occupational licensing, how does it affect employment and consumer costs, and what options exist for reform?

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  3. ICYMI: The High Cost of Increasing the Minimum Wage in Wisconsin to $15

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  4. Helping families in poverty find and maintain employment offers a path toward self-reliance and dignity.

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  5. 4. velj

    “Dental therapists are a key part of the solution in addressing a gap in care that has been building for years,” says exec director of Children’s Dental Services. “They represent the most cost-effective and outcome-effective innovation that we’ve seen.”

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  6. 4. velj

    Alternatives to a $15 minimum wage: -Expand Earned Income Tax Credit -Improve low-performing schools -Make job training more available

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  7. 4. velj

    The host committee will pre-qualify vendors and suppliers for the DNC, with “community engagement, environmental efforts including carbon neutrality and recycling” among its criteria along with $15 minimum wage & paid sick leave.

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  8. 3. velj

    In 2017, the WI Legislature required the Department of Safety and Professional Services to review all licenses in the state and propose ones to be eliminated. While DSPS flagged 28 licenses as duplicative and unnecessary, none have been eliminated.

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  9. 3. velj

    Wisconsin’s licensing laws still require, on average, $259 in fees, 214 days of education and experience, and an exam.

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  10. 3. velj

    In Wisconsin, some 18% of workers require approval from state government before they can practice their desired occupation.

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  11. 31. sij

    Created under the banner of public safety, licensing boards and councils essentially have the power to control that particular industry indefinitely.

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  12. 31. sij

    27 licensing boards are in outright violation of laws mandating public representation. At least 11 of them have no public representation at all, and 25 advisory councils with similar functions are also without any public members.

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  13. proslijedio/la je Tweet
    31. sij

    Thank you AFF-Milwaukee for having us speak for National Week! Great crowd, cold beer, and lively conversation 💯. H/t

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  14. 31. sij

    Our examination into Wisconsin licensing boards and councils and how they operate reveals a broken system where interest groups and those in power dominate licensing decisions at all levels of the process.

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  15. 30. sij

    To offset the cost of a $15 minimum wage, employees will: -Layoff the youngest and lower-skilled workers -Avoid paying workers health insurance -Decline in 401(k) contributions

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  16. 30. sij

    “WI’s low-income families deserve more than a government handout. They need policies that help them find employment that puts them on a path toward economic security,” says ., resident scholar and author of new Badger Institute report

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  17. 30. sij

    In regard to the DNC in Milwaukee: “When you’re trying to showcase the state of Wisconsin to delegates from around the country, why wouldn’t you have them stay in Wisconsin? Their decision is simply disappointing,” says .

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  18. 29. sij

    Prosecutors’ decisions affect every community across WI, and they must be made without perverse incentives. Properly funding prosecutors’ offices — thereby eliminating the incentive to inflate criminal charges — is key to a fair, free and safe society.

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  19. 29. sij

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s official poverty measure, almost two-thirds of poor working-age adults do not work at all in the year that they experience poverty.

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  20. 29. sij

    MN became the first state in the nation to license dental therapists to work with needy families and in underserved rural communities. In WI, more than 1.2 million residents live in dental care shortage areas.

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  21. 28. sij

    “Out here, we have a lot of mid-level providers in health care, so when we explained Lydia (a dental therapist) was like a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant, patients were receptive,” Plotz said.

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