Policy

There are many different risk assessment tools, used at various points in the criminal justice system including during bail hearings, sentencing, probation determinations and parole decisions.
As states around the country are starting to rethink their use of bail, many are turning to algorithms — but critics claim they can be racially biased.
As states rethink the use of bail, pretrial risk assessment tools are often at the center of it.
November 6, 2018 marked an historic election in the United States due to the unprecedented numbers of women elected to state and national offices. These results, however, were not equally distributed between the two major political parties.
A bubbling sense of uncertainty enveloping Foxconn's plans for its manufacturing and research operations in Wisconsin has sparked considerable speculation around the state in the opening months of 2019.
The confusion over Foxconn paints a picture of different ways politics and industrial development are conducted in China versus the United States.
In January, the Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill that addresses pre-existing conditions, but the scope of this proposal does not overlap completely with what is defined by the ACA.
Dotted across Wisconsin's landscape, Native American casinos are a relatively recent addition to the state's economic and social fabric.
Would it be safe to assume that voters' early opinions about Tony Evers might hew somewhat closely to the November 2018 election results? Not quite.
Wisconsin producers are seeing the effects of the trade wars.