The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

Chicago Police Tight-lipped About Use of License Plate Scanners, Despite $500,000 New Contract

A secretive contracting process—and limited responses to information requests—leave Chicagoans in the dark about how their license plate data is being collected and used.

Joel Handley

Feature

Just Taxing the 1 Percent as Much as We Tax the Poor Would Yield Billions for Cash-Strapped States

A new report shows that states and cities effectively tax the 1 percent at only 5.4 percent—half what they tax the poor (10.9 percent).

David Sirota

Labor

Protests Get Results: Walmart Announces It Will Give Workers a Raise

Shawn Gakhal

Labor

How Mexican Teachers Are Fighting Standardized Tests and Corporate Education Reform

Jane Slaughter

Labor

A Recent Study Says Unionized Companies Actually Pay Less. The Truth Is a Bit More Complex.

Michael Paarlberg

Labor

‘Uber is a rip-off for its drivers and the public’: Cab Drivers Protest Rideshares in Chicago

Rebecca Burns

Labor

UPDATE: After 9-Month Dispute, Port Union and Labor Secretary Perez Reach Deal with Management

Mario Vasquez

Labor

Jury Awards Guestworkers Over $14 Million in Landmark Human Trafficking, Forced Labor Case

Rachel Luban

California Follows Vermont in Providing Condoms to State Prisoners

George Lavender