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The author of the new book "Foxconned" says the Foxconn project in Racine County may continue to make news.
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Kathleen Gallagher, executive director of the 5 Lakes Institute and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist, says policymakers should be focused on looking to the future instead of the additional $300 unemployment payments.
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The Legislature's Republican-controlled rules committee voted to reinstate the requirement beginning Sunday, pushing aside Democratic members' complaints that the move is premature and won't help employers fill vacancies.
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A summit between leaders from the United States, Canada and several European nations this week is looking at ways to revitalize economically depressed areas.
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Wisconsin will receive $700 million less than initially expected in federal coronavirus relief money and it will arrive in two payments a year apart.
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Although the Fight for 15 movement is nearly a decade old, there isn’t a single state with a minimum wage that high. And while the majority of states do have a minimum higher than the federal standard, Wisconsin is not among them. A new fact sheet released by COWS found that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would mean a pay raise for at least 30% of Wisconsinites.
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Local economies across America struggled through 2020. The coronavirus pandemic brought many businesses to a grinding halt and has kept many people out of…
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For months, the state Department of Workforce Development (DWD) has been criticized for its backlog of unpaid unemployment claims. Currently, it's at more…
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The Labor Department likely will report Friday a sharp slowdown in job growth in November as a surge in coronavirus cases weighs on many businesses.
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The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development's top leader resigned Friday after failing to find a way to address a massive backlog of unprocessed…