The State of Working Wisconsin 2024 is live!
High Road Strategy Center releases The State of Working Wisconsin 2024!
In celebration of Wisconsin workers, the High Road Strategy Center released the The State of Working Wisconsin 2024. Our report analyzes the most recent data available on wages, jobs, and unions, and, this year, provides a special feature on women workers. We have been releasing this report since 1996 to provide clear information on the economy as experienced by the working people of the state.
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The State of Working Wisconsin
To celebrate Wisconsin's workforce, the High Road Strategy Center has released its annual State of Working Wisconsin 2024 report. Since 1996, this report offers clear insights into Wisconsin’s economy from the perspective of workers. This year’s edition analyzes recent data on wages, jobs, and unions, with a special focus on women in the workforce.
From Community Benefits, to Collective Bargaining, and Back
Community Benefits Agreements can yield strong results from public investments in private projects like stadiums. Milwaukee's first CBA established labor peace and enabled workers to form MASH. This report showcases how MASH has improved employment and job quality standards for service workers in Milwaukee's Deer District and beyond.
Covering the Bases
Cities across the country routinely make investments in stadiums, such as the Kansas City Royals, despite ample evidence that communities don’t secure promised economic returns. In this paper, we draw on national evidence and experience in Milwaukee to help inform the public discussion in Kansas City.
High Road Strategy Center in the News
As Election Day nears, the economy remains top of mind for Wisconsin voters
The workers who’ve fared the best in recent years were the state’s lowest earners, whose wage growth has outpaced Wisconsin’s highest earners, according to a recent report from the High Road Strategy Center, a worker-focused economic think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
October 8, 2024New report finds rising wages and declining unemployment in Wisconsin
The economy and inflation have been top issues in this presidential election year. But a new report suggests that Wisconsin workers are doing relatively well and even exceeding expectations, despite inflation. The report released by the High Road Strategy Center at UW-Madison, found rising wages and declining unemployment in Wisconsin. "The labor market is strong in the sense that we've produced a lot of jobs —25,000 jobs over the past year—more today than in the past," says Laura Dresser, associate director of the center.
September 24, 2024Madison Montessori school teachers file for union election
In the child care sector specifically, unions are an anomaly, said Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director of the UW-Madison think tank High Road Strategy Center. “Child care unions are really rare in Wisconsin … and unions are rare in child care nationally as well,” Dresser said.
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