Author: knutson4

Noted: Studies disagree about whether the credit spurred job growth, with University of Wisconsin-Madison economics professor Noah Williams crediting it with creating 20,000 manufacturing jobs while the Wisconsin Budget Project cites federal statistics showing state manufacturing job and wage growth continue to be slower here than the national average.

A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has mathematically concluded what  Packer national already knows: Aaron Rodgers is a better quarterback than Tom Brady.

UW-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg — author of the bestseller “How Not to Be Wrong” — will make his numbers-crunching case for Rodgers in a pregame feature during the national broadcast Sunday of the match-up between the Green Bay Packers and Brady’s team, the New England Patriots.

Guests include Michael Apple, professor of curriculum and instruction, and educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Marcia Slattery, the head of the UW Anxiety Center, talks about how you can help kids with anxiety cope on Halloween.

Quoted: “It’s extraordinarily unlikely that a single product is going to have a positive effect on a whole series of diseases,” said Alta Charo, a UW professor of law and bioethics.

Quoted: “One of the biggest ways is that it lowers the tax rate,” said Fabio Gaertner, associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. A lower tax rate means companies keep more of their money.

Quoted: “It’s hard to think of another instance like this where even one or two cabinet secretaries would come and speak out against a sitting governor. To have four is unprecedented,” said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “It’s such a wild card,” said political scientist David Canon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, referring to turnout trends in the Donald Trump era and the shifting motivation levels of voting groups on each side as they react to events (like the Supreme Court confirmation fight over Brett Kavanaugh) and the president’s lightning-rod rhetoric.

Quoted: “Given the history of Act 10, all the budgets cut to K-12 early in the Walker tenure, and with a somewhat more positive budget now for education and the governor claiming to be the ‘education governor,’ you knew the Democratic challenger was going to talk about (education) no matter what,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist David Canon. “Then, when the Democratic challenger is Tony Evers, the state school superintendent, it’s ready-made to have education be the focus of the campaign.”

Quoted: “If the fungus dies, the ants die,” says Cameron Currie, a microbial ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the fungus-farming ants and their mutually beneficial relationships with other species.