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Jack Norman, Ph.D.
jnorman@wisconsinsfuture.org
Dr. Jack Norman has been Research Director at the Institute for
Wisconsin's Future since 2000. He oversees policy research and development,
especially in the areas of school finance and taxes. Jack is a frequent
speaker at events statewide, and is the author of several major
reports, including; Wisconsin's Revenue Gap: An analysis of
corporate tax avoidance (2007), Exposing the Wisconsin
‘Tax Hell’ Hoax (2005), Funding Our Future:
An Adequacy Model for Wisconsin School Finance (2002) and Wisconsin
Atlas of School Finance (2004). Through his writing and speaking,
he has developed a reputation as one of the most recognized experts
on Wisconsin school finance.
Before joining IWF, Jack was a business and local news reporter
at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Milwaukee Journal. His news
reporting won local and national journalism awards, including a
Gerald Loeb award for the best business journalism in the U.S. for
coverage of Wisconsin-based maquiladora factories in Mexico. Jack
also organized a newsroom union and served seven terms as president
of the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild and four terms as an international
vice president of the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of
America AFL-CIO. He has also been a public school teacher in Pennsylvania
and a university professor in Wisconsin.
Jack has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh,
a B.A. from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and was a post-doctoral
fellow in philosophy at Princeton University. He lives in Milwaukee.
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