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The 2024 Year in Review is live!

High Road Strategy Center celebrates a year of high-impact policy and progress.

In 2024, we helped cities and states across the country advance high-road strategies that build more equitable and democratic communities. From safer streets to stronger worker protections, this report highlights the real progress our network made this year. 

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High Road Strategy Center in the News

  • Mornings with Pat Kreitlow: The Titanic Did, In Fact Sink (Hour 1)

    Shifting gears, they spotlight the dire situation of American childcare and elder care systems, with Laura Dresser emphasizing the need for public investment in these undervalued sectors. As they critique the inadequacies of federal incentives and Wisconsin's stagnant minimum wage, they call for systemic change to support society's most critical caregivers.

  • What does Wisconsin’s minimum wage from 2009 mean today?

    "It matters to say this is the standard that we are going to meet. This is what jobs should do," said Laura Dresser, the associate director of High Road Strategy Center at UW Madison. Her research focuses on low-wage work and workforce development systems.

  • Wisconsin’s minimum wage lags behind neighbors

    Laura Dresser, associate director of the High Road Strategy Center, tells WPR that market forces have driven many jobs to post wages around $15 or $16 an hour regardless of the state minimum wage. But Rep Hong says raising the wage floor would ensure that all workers are fairly compensated for their labor.

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