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New Publication: Understanding Wisconsin Prosperity in the National Context

Aerial shot of a farm in Wisconsin. The farm buildings include a red barn, three silos, a shed for animals, a third red building, and a farmhouse.

A new publication in the UW Extension WIndicator series reports findings from the Rural Livability Project’s Prosperity Index. In the study, Danielle Schmidt, Tessa Conroy, and Steven Deller note prosperity is regionally patterned across the United States and Wisconsin sits at the center of a prosperity “hot spot.”