On March 27, High Road Strategy Center released From Community Benefits, to Collective Bargaining, and Back that illustrates the ways in which The Milwaukee Area Service and Hospitality Workers Organization (MASH) has been able to …
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Kansas City Chiefs and Royals say stadium deals will help the community. Economists disagree
Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director for the High Road Strategy Center, has studied these types of agreements in other cities. A good example, she said, is the deal the Milwaukee Bucks made for their new stadium. It included a living wage for stadium and entertainment district workers and a path to unionization.
Economists agree that public stadiums should only get $10 million to $30 million in subsidies
Dresser is advocating for Kansas City to adopt a community benefits agreement, similar to one adopted in Milwaukee, that would hold the teams accountable to a set of measurable economic benefits. The teams missed a Feb. …
High Road Strategy Center Releases Covering the Bases: Community Benefits for Public Subsidies in Kansas City
In February 2024, High Road Strategy Center released Covering the Bases: Community Benefits for Public Subsidies in Kansas City that utilizes the successful Community Benefits Agreement workers at The Milwaukee Area Service and Hospitality Workers …
Milwaukee’s lesson for Kansas City on building a stadium that works for all
Laura Dresser is an economist at the University of Wisconsin and associate director of the High Road Strategy Center. She spoke with Up To Date’s Steve Kraske about her report on community benefits agreements and …
Low-wage workers say Royals haven’t earned their votes to build a downtown Kansas City ballpark
Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin, recently co-authored a report about what a robust community benefits agreement can do for a community. She told KCUR that the Royals could learn a lesson from the community benefits agreement the Milwaukee Bucks signed when that NBA franchise built its new stadium.
Tens of thousands of workers in Florida have just lost their labor unions. More is coming
Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told WLRN that SB 256 appears to be stronger than Wisconsin’s law, and predicted that its impact might be more widespread and immediate.
Thousands of Californians got a shot at better careers through this program. Is it working?
The High Road program is an improvement compared to many other workforce programs, which often prioritize training people for jobs regardless of the quality, said Laura Dresser, the associate director of the High Road Strategy Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She helped coin the term “high road” and served as a consultant to California’s workforce programs in 2017.
What is Wisconsin’s minimum wage, and why hasn’t it changed when other states’ minimum wages have?
Low-wage workers have found it especially hard to afford higher housing costs, even before a spike in prices in 2022, explained Laura Dresser, associate director of the High Road Strategy Center (formerly COWS, a left-leaning think tank) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2023 was a big year for unions. Wisconsin labor leaders want to keep the momentum going.
Laura Dresser, associate director of the left-leaning COWS economic think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said state policies like Act 10 and Wisconsin’s “right to work” law have played a major role in the decline.