Badger State
Americannoun
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The MacIver Institute estimated this year that the Badger State reforms have saved taxpayers $35.6 billion, about two-thirds of which has come from lower healthcare costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Cayden Kershaw, an incoming senior at Wausau West High School, and 8-year-old Emmit Bailey from Menomonie, made the Badger State this year’s kings of “business in the front, party in the back.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2022
Women make all the difference in the Badger State.
From Fox News • Sep. 3, 2020
"Bam" — it's "easy to get," said the gentleman from the Badger State.
From Salon • May 7, 2020
Michigan is called the "Wolverine State," Wisconsin the "Badger State," and it is not at all singular that Minnesota should have been christened the "Gopher State."
From The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene)
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