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The fix is not as simple as reducing unemployment benefits. That may help at the margins, but the solution must include measures to improve affordability of childcare, reform immigration, upskill the labor force and much more. We have a lot of work to do.
Liberals used to care about the rights of the accused. Now, they care more about identity politics.
Seeking a way to separate from Donald Trump.
The enhanced unemployment benefit is keeping people from returning to work, and many states are ending it.
Massive federal spending leaves many in the Badger State better off, but the bill is coming due.
Wisconsin, because of state Republicans, is one of 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid.
The fund, managed by the Department of Employee Trust Funds, is ranked among the best in the nation.
Eighty-eight percent of Republicans said in a 2020 survey they want the program to continue, as did 90% of independents and 97% of Democrats.
Why Wisconsin shouldn’t spend $100 million in taxpayer money to invest in private enterprise.
President Biden wants to restore the American Dream for workers. He strongly supports congressional passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
While individual law enforcement officers can be deeply civic-minded, anti-racist and community-motivated, the system of policing has gone wildly off track, with flawed training of law enforcement officers and an aggressive and sometimes militaristic culture.
The once powerful lobby that has played kingmaker in so many state and national elections, helping elect politicians who would steamroll grieving parents of murdered school children and survivors of mass shootings begging for help, is now on the ropes.
Congressmen Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald are asking for your money to prevent President Joe Biden from doing to America what Hugo Chavez did to Venezuela. No, really. We can’t make this stuff up.
Republicans are running scared, not only in Wisconsin, but throughout the country. As a futurist, I know the reason. It is demographics.
Liz Cheney, the third ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives did not have a fast-enough horse to out-run the majority of GOP congressmen, including all five from Wisconsin, who wanted to shut her up as she consistently challenged former President Trump and his Big Lie that the November election was stolen from him.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider policy shifts in state agencies as Gov. Tony Evers gains control of boards governing the DNR, the UW System and Department of Ag Trade and Consumer Protection.
The Biden administration is working to reassert the government’s top consumer watchdog just as the U.S. economy is showing signs of a solid recovery.
We want our leaders to defend America. To stand up, unabashedly, for its inherent goodness. To provide optimistic leadership that will spur us on to success. To unite us as Americans.
Why are so many people—including those who have been fully vaccinated—still obsessively wearing masks when the science says they don’t need to?
A chorus of voices from state businesses say they can’t find enough workers to fill open jobs, a trend that might expand as Wisconsin nears the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of the summer tourist season.
The fix is not as simple as reducing unemployment benefits. That may help at the margins, but the solution must include measures to improve affordability of childcare, reform immigration, upskill the labor force and much more. We have a lot of work to do.
Liberals used to care about the rights of the accused. Now, they care more about identity politics.
Seeking a way to separate from Donald Trump.
The enhanced unemployment benefit is keeping people from returning to work, and many states are ending it.
Massive federal spending leaves many in the Badger State better off, but the bill is coming due.
Wisconsin, because of state Republicans, is one of 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid.
The fund, managed by the Department of Employee Trust Funds, is ranked among the best in the nation.
Eighty-eight percent of Republicans said in a 2020 survey they want the program to continue, as did 90% of independents and 97% of Democrats.
Why Wisconsin shouldn’t spend $100 million in taxpayer money to invest in private enterprise.
President Biden wants to restore the American Dream for workers. He strongly supports congressional passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
While individual law enforcement officers can be deeply civic-minded, anti-racist and community-motivated, the system of policing has gone wildly off track, with flawed training of law enforcement officers and an aggressive and sometimes militaristic culture.
The once powerful lobby that has played kingmaker in so many state and national elections, helping elect politicians who would steamroll grieving parents of murdered school children and survivors of mass shootings begging for help, is now on the ropes.
Congressmen Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald are asking for your money to prevent President Joe Biden from doing to America what Hugo Chavez did to Venezuela. No, really. We can’t make this stuff up.
Republicans are running scared, not only in Wisconsin, but throughout the country. As a futurist, I know the reason. It is demographics.
Liz Cheney, the third ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives did not have a fast-enough horse to out-run the majority of GOP congressmen, including all five from Wisconsin, who wanted to shut her up as she consistently challenged former President Trump and his Big Lie that the November election was stolen from him.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider policy shifts in state agencies as Gov. Tony Evers gains control of boards governing the DNR, the UW System and Department of Ag Trade and Consumer Protection.
The Biden administration is working to reassert the government’s top consumer watchdog just as the U.S. economy is showing signs of a solid recovery.
We want our leaders to defend America. To stand up, unabashedly, for its inherent goodness. To provide optimistic leadership that will spur us on to success. To unite us as Americans.
Why are so many people—including those who have been fully vaccinated—still obsessively wearing masks when the science says they don’t need to?
A chorus of voices from state businesses say they can’t find enough workers to fill open jobs, a trend that might expand as Wisconsin nears the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of the summer tourist season.
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