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Alternative uses for $3 billion would be more fruitful.
Vouchers aren’t about making a profit, but giving parents choices.
It is refreshing to learn that legislation is being introduced to lift Wisconsin’s long-standing moratorium on metallic mineral mining. We here in northern Wisconsin can potentially share in the economic gains that our neighbors in northern Minnesota and Michigan are looking forward to with current mining projects under development.
Since 1970s income of top 1% rose 130%, other 99% grew by just 9%.
The upgrade by Moody’s groups Wisconsin with 18 states that are one notch below the top tier of 14 states. It remains to be seen whether the other two rating services (Standard and Poor’s and Fitch Ratings) will follow suit. Currently, S&P rates Wisconsin in a group that is below 29 other states.
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The Foxconn bill is headed to the full Assembly Thursday after clearing a committee yesterday evening. But a Dem who voted against the bill isn’t saying what he’ll do once it hits the floor. The $3 billion incentive package for
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Foxconn bill is headed to the full Assembly Thursday after clearing a committee yesterday evening. But a Dem who voted against the bill isn’t saying what he’ll
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Committee on Jobs and the Economy was still meeting this afternoon after members shot down all proposed Dem changes to the Foxconn bill and adopted a substitute amendment Assembly GOP
The chance to lure Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin is not just about securing 13,000 direct jobs over time and twice that many indirect jobs, but changing the business landscape in a way that will spur ideas, products and companies yet to be imagined.
With an Assembly vote on the package—the biggest ever economic development deal between state government and a business—tentatively scheduled for Thursday, here are 10 questions that have every legislator squirming.
The vast majority of the Foxconn workers will be Wisconsin residents, but some will commute here from Illinois. It’s important to understand that Wisconsin will receive income tax payments for all the Foxconn employees, wherever they reside.
Regardless of which side you take in the Foxconn saga, the willingness of the Walker administration to barter away the state’s time-honored environmental protections for what could be an elusive promise of jobs from a corporation with a reputation for reneging has got to be troubling on the surface.
Alternative uses for $3 billion would be more fruitful.
Vouchers aren’t about making a profit, but giving parents choices.
It is refreshing to learn that legislation is being introduced to lift Wisconsin’s long-standing moratorium on metallic mineral mining. We here in northern Wisconsin can potentially share in the economic gains that our neighbors in northern Minnesota and Michigan are looking forward to with current mining projects under development.
Since 1970s income of top 1% rose 130%, other 99% grew by just 9%.
The upgrade by Moody’s groups Wisconsin with 18 states that are one notch below the top tier of 14 states. It remains to be seen whether the other two rating services (Standard and Poor’s and Fitch Ratings) will follow suit. Currently, S&P rates Wisconsin in a group that is below 29 other states.
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The Foxconn bill is headed to the full Assembly Thursday after clearing a committee yesterday evening. But a Dem who voted against the bill isn’t saying what he’ll do once it hits the floor. The $3 billion incentive package for the Taiwanese manufacturing company passed on an 8-5 party line
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Foxconn bill is headed to the full Assembly Thursday after clearing a committee yesterday evening. But a Dem who voted against the bill isn’t saying what he’ll do once it hits the floor. The $3 billion incentive
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Committee on Jobs and the Economy was still meeting this afternoon after members shot down all proposed Dem changes to the Foxconn bill and adopted a substitute amendment Assembly GOP leaders released Friday. Almost two dozen Dem amendments were rejected
The chance to lure Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin is not just about securing 13,000 direct jobs over time and twice that many indirect jobs, but changing the business landscape in a way that will spur ideas, products and companies yet to be imagined.
With an Assembly vote on the package—the biggest ever economic development deal between state government and a business—tentatively scheduled for Thursday, here are 10 questions that have every legislator squirming.
The vast majority of the Foxconn workers will be Wisconsin residents, but some will commute here from Illinois. It’s important to understand that Wisconsin will receive income tax payments for all the Foxconn employees, wherever they reside.
Regardless of which side you take in the Foxconn saga, the willingness of the Walker administration to barter away the state’s time-honored environmental protections for what could be an elusive promise of jobs from a corporation with a reputation for reneging has got to be troubling on the surface.