Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Just like that, Wisconsin has billions to use, if they want. And use it, they must

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I thought Finance Committee decisions on the WisDOT budget and the State's Building Program would be the big budget story of the day....
Monday, June 7, 2021

New "gold standard" report confirms 2020 put Wis in a huge jobs hole

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We recently got the full data set from the "gold standard" Quarterly Census on Employment and Wages (QCEW), and it gave some extr...

WisDOT funding not as big a deal for 2021-23. But still much to figure out

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In recent years, transportation funding has been a central issue in Wisconsin budgets. But not as much this year, as Medicaid, K-12 and fe...
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Friday, June 4, 2021

Job growth picks up, and more are working than the headlines indicate

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I figured US job growth would bounce back in today’s report for May after a surprisingly low 236,000 gain reported for April, and I was rig...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

WisGOPs whined about unemployment delays in 2020, but won't pay to fix it in 2021

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This time last year, there were large amounts of Wisconsinites out of work, but they couldn't receive unemployment benefits because th...
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Monday, May 31, 2021

New COVID data shows it was worse than we knew. And that it got a lot better in May

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Looks like the Wisconsin Department of Health Services made a few adjustments to how they present their COVID data, now that the overall ...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

April income and spending not better than March, but a lot better than February.

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It reflects information from a month ago, but it's still always worthy to look at the Income and Spending report, which came out on...