(UNION GROVE, Wis.) – A Job Center has opened at Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center (REECC) in Union Grove, marking the 5th collaboration between the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) and Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Develop (DWD) on an institution-based Job Center. “We’re excited because this will allow the more than

The Department of Health Services (DHS) has released improvements to the COVID-19 hospital data webpage. This update puts all COVID-19 hospital data on one page, so Wisconsinites can more easily find the information they need. The new webpage includes two data dashboards. The COVID-19 hospital capacity dashboard has been expanded to include

Madison, Wis. — Today a broad coalition of state and national groups committed to education reform sent a letter to Governor Evers, leadership in the legislature, and State Superintendent Stanford Taylor asking them to use the American Rescue Plan’s new K-12 funding to support course access for struggling students. The letter

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Ron Kind sent a letter to Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos urging them to stop playing politics and accept federal investments to expand BadgerCare as proposed in Governor Tony Evers’s 2021-2023 Budget. Wisconsin is one of only 12 states that have failed to fully

MILWAUKEE — Erika Moritsugu, currently vice president of congressional relations and economic justice at the National Partnership for Women and Families, will keynote the final conversation in the Pay Equity Series hosted by Marquette University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership on Tuesday, April 20, at 1 p.m. NOTE: On April 14, President Joe

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), alongside Reps. Ed Case (D-HI), Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Scott Peters (D-CA), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), and Carolyn Bordeaux (D-GA), today reintroduced the Time to Rescue United States’ Trusts (TRUST) Act, bipartisan and bicameral legislation that would create a process to rescue the endangered federal trust

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Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov PLEASANT PRAIRIE — Gov. Tony Evers today, together with Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) Secretary-designee Dawn Crim, visited and toured the Pfizer facility in Pleasant Prairie. The governor also signed Assembly Bill (AB) 120, now Wisconsin Act 25, which will help Pfizer, Inc., and Wisconsin continue to provide COVID-19

Contact: Timothy Svoboda, (202) 225-2476 (Washington, D.C.) – This week, Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-WI) joined House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM) in El Paso, Texas and along the southern border in New Mexico to examine President Biden’s border crisis. Biden’s border crisis

Contact: Jerel Ballard, 608-266-9600 jerel.ballard@wisconsin.gov At the Public Service Commission (PSC), we understand how important broadband access is to our communities’ educational and economic opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to expanding this critical service across the state so we can decrease the digital divide impacting many of our

MADISON – The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) preliminary employment estimates for the month of March 2021. The data shows that Wisconsin’s total non-farm jobs increased by 12,900 over the month, while private-sector jobs increased by 11,100 over the same period. Wisconsin’s