Browsing La Follette Publications: Primers, Reports, and Summaries by Title
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From Sandbags to Sanity: The Policy Implications of the Midwest Floods of 2008
(2009-04-20)When record floods swept through the Midwest in the summer of 2008, some local government officials put out a call for extra sandbags as their primary response. Others dusted off incomplete and out-of-date floodplain maps ... -
Growing Pains for the Euro
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The Growth in Health Care Cost
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Implementing Chicago's Plan to Transform Basic Housing
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La Follette and His Legacy
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Limiting Government Spending in Wisconsin
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Medical Governance: Are We Ready to Prescribe?
(2006-11-03)Federal and state governments in the United States play substantial and complex roles in promoting, subsidizing, regulating, and even providing health care in the United States. Financial pressures on Medicare and Medicaid, ... -
The Middle Way to Property Tax Reform
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Property Tax Freeze/Deferral Proposal
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Rainy Day Funds and TABOR
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What Do We Know About Taxes and Economic Development?
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What Makes Hierarchical Networks Succeed? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina
(2006-11-02)This paper examines response problems to Hurricane Katrina from a network perspective, identifying how network task, capacity and coordination factors weakened the response. The impact of Katrina called for a response ... -
Who Pays Taxes in Wisconsin?
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Wisconsin Manufacturing in the Global Economy: its Past, Present, and Future
(2000-10)In this paper, I briefly sketch how the New Economy forces of globalization and technology have affected Wisconsin?s manufacturing in the recent past, and I note the challenges these forces will pose in the future. The ... -
Wisconsin Taxes in Perspective
(2005-01-19)