For Labor Day
State of Working Wisconsin 2019: Facts & Figures -
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This Labor Day, with the memory of the Great Recession of 2007 now
fading, workers across Wisconsin have good news to celebrate. The
unemployment rate in the state has been consistently low and the
economy is steadily adding jobs. These are important measures for
working people's lives. When jobs are more available, not only is it
easier to secure a job, it is also easier to get the hours of work
you want, to be able to ask for time-off you need, and to make ends
meet.

Even so, many working families in the state feel stressed and
stretched: wages are stagnant, income inequality continues to worsen
(thanks in part to state tax policy), and union membership is on a
sharp decline.

"This Labor Day, we provide another year of data showing long-term
wage stagnation and growing inequality," stated Joel Rogers, COWS
Director. "The richest Wisconsinites increasingly reap the greatest
rewards of growth. Creating more broadly shared prosperity requires
stronger public policy focused on equality and equity."

Read full report here -
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About COWS
COWS is a nonprofit think-and-do tank, based at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, which promotes high road solutions to social
problems. These treat shared growth and opportunity, environmental
sustainability, and resilient democratic institutions as necessary
and achievable complements in human development. Through our various
projects, we work with cities around the country to promote
innovation and the implementation of high road policy. COWS is
nonpartisan but values-based. We seek a world of equal opportunity
and security for all.

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