Millville’s population was 92 in 2020, according to U.S. Census data — down from 169 in 1990, a 45.6% loss. Only the Town of Jacobs in Ashland County, which had a 56.8% drop, lost more people over that period. 

The 2020 Census figures illustrate what happens when a community commits in its land policy to agriculture while fewer people make a living farming in Wisconsin.

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To bring about change, parents need to know what a school is teaching. They also need the leverage to object. School choice is not the only tool, but it is a necessary first tool, because parents’ power to change schools comes from their power to leave schools for better ones.

Wisconsin’s labor force participation rate — the share of the state’s civilian, non-institutionalized population 16 and older who are either employed or looking for work — signifies a robust and active workforce in Wisconsin. However, Wisconsin’s rate, like that of the nation, has been falling in the long term since a peak around the turn of the century. 

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