In seven of Wisconsin’s 10 largest cities, there were fewer police officers per capita in 2018 than a decade earlier, even as their police spending levels and violent crime rates both increased.
The Madison metro area has led Wisconsin’s three largest metro areas in job growth since the Great Recession, aided by robust growth in math and computer occupations.
A decade after the Great Recession slammed the brakes on the U.S. economy, employment in Wisconsin has recovered and surged almost 72,000 jobs higher than its pre-recession peak.
For the first time, federal law now requires states and school districts to report per-pupil spending down to the level of each individual school.
Compared to other states, Wisconsin’s greater reliance on a few taxes means those taxes here rank relatively high compared to other states.
Taxes paid by Wisconsinites as a share of personal income have fallen in the last two decades by more than two percentage points, one of the largest decreases of any state.
Wisconsin state budget reserves recently hit their highest level in four decades, as corporate tax collections grew at their fastest rate in over 50 years.
As Wisconsin’s medical marijuana debate ramps up, the track record for other states that legalized it in similar fashion suggests it is unlikely that doing so here would quickly lead to recreational legalization.
If marijuana is legalized for medical purposes in Wisconsin, then taxed and made widely available, it remains unlikely that it would provide a transformative source of revenue for the state.
Metro Milwaukee compares favorably to peer metro areas in its talent pool of knowledge workers, including in science, engineering, and technology-dependent fields, but lags in key measures of entrepreneurship, including small-business creation, venture capital funding, and minority-owned businesses.
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