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Progress can sometimes begin with small bipartisan victories. Perhaps building a more skilled workforce is one such milestone.

Any governor who wants to take advantage of the provision can designate 25% of a state’s distressed areas as Opportunity Zones. At the same time, investors can put their money in newly created Opportunity Funds. Managers of Opportunity Funds would then be able to invest in designated areas, and investors would receive tax-advantaged rates on their earnings.

Johnson, who chairs the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, backtracked almost immediately under heavy pressure.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Corrections would no longer face a hard deadline of July 1, 2020, to close Lincoln Hills to provide flexibility for the opening of new juvenile facilities under a substitute amendment lawmakers plan


A recent study from leading economists Marshall Steinbaum, Ioana Marinescu, and Jose Azar has found that the average labor market is highly concentrated and as the concentration in a labor market goes up, average wages go down — by as much as 17 percent.

No one denies that many of Walker’s proposals are meant to reassure voters in 2018. But Democrats are inventing new contortions to pretend they oppose the plans.

Wisconsin’s ‘arbitrary’ exam scores fencing out many young professionals.

The banal privatizing of Wisconsin public resources and nationally-noted environmental degradation during Walker’s rule isn’t complicated. There aren’t coincidences anymore.
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson said his world view is different than his parents, who have contributed to Nicholson’s potential opponent, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. “We’ve come to the world view we have through our experiences. Not everybody shares

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Badger Advocates From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker will tour hospitals in La Crosse and Green Bay today to tout his plan for an Obamacare reinsurance program for individuals. Both houses of the Legislature

The 2018 election presents a pivotal challenge for Gov. Scott Walker and Sen. Tammy Baldwin. How will Wisconsin’s top incumbents fare in the first midterm election since Donald Trump won the White House? The WisPolitics.com election year preview–brought to you by

Progress can sometimes begin with small bipartisan victories. Perhaps building a more skilled workforce is one such milestone.

Any governor who wants to take advantage of the provision can designate 25% of a state’s distressed areas as Opportunity Zones. At the same time, investors can put their money in newly created Opportunity Funds. Managers of Opportunity Funds would then be able to invest in designated areas, and investors would receive tax-advantaged rates on their earnings.

Johnson, who chairs the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, backtracked almost immediately under heavy pressure.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Corrections would no longer face a hard deadline of July 1, 2020, to close Lincoln Hills to provide flexibility for the opening of new juvenile facilities under a substitute amendment lawmakers plan to introduce tomorrow, Rep. Michael Schraa told WisPolitics.com. The amendment


A recent study from leading economists Marshall Steinbaum, Ioana Marinescu, and Jose Azar has found that the average labor market is highly concentrated and as the concentration in a labor market goes up, average wages go down — by as much as 17 percent.

No one denies that many of Walker’s proposals are meant to reassure voters in 2018. But Democrats are inventing new contortions to pretend they oppose the plans.

Wisconsin’s ‘arbitrary’ exam scores fencing out many young professionals.

The banal privatizing of Wisconsin public resources and nationally-noted environmental degradation during Walker’s rule isn’t complicated. There aren’t coincidences anymore.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday: WisPolitics Luncheon with Senator Tammy Baldwin Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Thursday Feb. 22 with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, up for re-election this year. Check-in and lunch begins at 11:30 a.m., with the program going

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson said his world view is different than his parents, who have contributed to Nicholson’s potential opponent, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. “We’ve come to the world view we have through our experiences. Not everybody shares that, and that’s OK,” Nicholson said Sunday on “UpFront with Mike

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Badger Advocates From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker will tour hospitals in La Crosse and Green Bay today to tout his plan for an Obamacare reinsurance program for individuals. Both houses of the Legislature have the bill on their Tuesday calendars. See the Senate

The 2018 election presents a pivotal challenge for Gov. Scott Walker and Sen. Tammy Baldwin. How will Wisconsin’s top incumbents fare in the first midterm election since Donald Trump won the White House? The WisPolitics.com election year preview–brought to you by the Wisconsin Counties Association–assembles some of Wisconsin’s foremost political experts