The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) has released a report called The State of Working Wisconsin — Update 2011, which examines the increased rates of unemployment and underemployment in Wisconsin and the disparate impact those problems on particular sectors of the workforce. Read more in the Wisconsin Budget Project’s Labor Day blog post.
Jon Peacock
This week marked Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, which signifies how long a Black woman has to work into 2020 to bring her 2019-20 earnings to the same amount a White man made in 2019. Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is months later than National Equal Pay Day, which falls...
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a huge toll across America, and public health experts say a much larger surge in infections and deaths is likely this fall if people don’t take the threat more seriously. Considering that other developed nations have done a far better...
If the Census Bureau proceeds with its plan to cut short efforts to count every person in the 2020 Census, the census won’t be a true portrait of America. And as a result, every community will have to live for the next decade under the harm of an incomplete count,...
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