Unemployment rate falls to 3.8 percent in January

Wisconsin in January had an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent, less than the national average of 6.3 percent but still above pre-pandemic levels. The latest data from the Department of Workforce Development showed the state in January gained 3,700 more

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Nelson family: Carrie Lee Nelson dies at 98

Carrie Lee Nelson, widow of U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI), died Monday, March 15, at her home in Kensington, MD of congestive pulmonary disease. She was 98. Carrie Lee Dotson was born into poverty in Appalachia’s Cumberland Mountains on Jan.

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WED News Summary: Legislators OK bills on Holocaust ed, sexual assault kits, vaccine jobs; Johnson says not running for governor

**************************************** March 29: DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk headlines Newsmaker Lunch Hour Julie Willems Van Dijk, deputy secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, will be the featured guest at a virtual event set for noon on Monday, March 29. This Newsmaker Lunch Hour is presented by

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WED AM Update: GOP Building Commission members signal they may send capital budget to JFC without recommendation

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The GOP members of the Building Commission are signaling they’ll move at today’s meeting to send Gov. Tony Evers’ capital budget to the Joint Finance Committee without a recommendation. Republican lawmakers on the commission tried a similar tactic

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Unemployment rate falls to 3.8 percent in January

Wisconsin in January had an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent, less than the national average of 6.3 percent but still above pre-pandemic levels. The latest data from the Department of Workforce Development showed the state in January gained 3,700 more jobs compared to December, a 0.2 percent change. But, overall,

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Biden administration’s trade approach may benefit Wisconsin’s economy

The Biden administration will open markets and opt for multilateral trade agreements, benefitting Wisconsin’s trade economy, according to a global affairs expert. Jeremi Suri, a global affairs professor at the University of Texas at Austin, discussed the controversial trade relationship between the U.S. and the rest of the world during

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Nelson family: Carrie Lee Nelson dies at 98

Carrie Lee Nelson, widow of U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI), died Monday, March 15, at her home in Kensington, MD of congestive pulmonary disease. She was 98. Carrie Lee Dotson was born into poverty in Appalachia’s Cumberland Mountains on Jan. 29, 1923 in Wise, Virginia, the ninth of 10 children,

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