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Ho, S., and S. Rhodes-Conway. A Short Guide to Setting Up a City-Scale Retrofit Program. COWS, 2009.
A Short Guide to Setting Up a City-Scale Retrofit Program, co-authored by Green For All and COWS, provides a model for designing and implementing weatherization and retrofitting programs on a citywide scale, with a goal of making these retrofits available to more households and providing good, entry-level jobs with career pathways.
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White , S. Greening Wisconsin’s Workforce: Training, Recovery, and the Clean Energy Economy. COWS, 2009.
Greening Wisconsin’s Workforce: Training, Recovery, and the Clean Energy Economy tackles the question of how Wisconsin can best pursue the greener and more equitable promise of the clean energy economy. It looks at how the state can use Recovery Act dollars and a first-rate technical college system to ensure that the emerging green economy benefits Wisconsin’s working families.
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The Wisconsin Apollo Alliance is asking the Joint Finance Committee of the Wisconsin Legislature to take bold steps to move Wisconsin into the clean energy economy. In a letter to the committee, it asks legislators to amend the Energy Independence Fund, so that at least a percentage of that fund must be used to build renewable energy supply chains in Wisconsin.
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Sundquist, E. Estimating Jobs From Building Energy Efficiency. COWS, 2009.
This report, based on joint work by COWS (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and the Powell Center for Construction & Environment (University of Florida), suggests a way to get at least policy-level answers to the question of what kinds of jobs result from investment in building energy efficiency (EE). Program designers, armed with better knowledge of the building stock, energy costs, specific EE measures likely to be supported, and other local data, will be able to provide much more robust estimates as they move toward program implementation.
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Rhodes-Conway, S. Wisconsin Apollo State Policy Platform 2008-2009. COWS, 2009.
The Wisconsin Apollo State Policy Platform for 2009 supports the promotion of clean energy manufacturing, to enact tougher appliance efficiency standards, to set higher goals for Wisconsin’s renewable portfolio standard, to make a major state effort in building efficiency, to cap, auction and invest, to create affordable, accessible, and comprehensive public transit systems, and to enact a low carbon fuel standard.
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Boardman, C., and E. Sundquist. “Toward Understanding Work Motivation: Worker Attitudes and the Perception of Effective Public Service”. The American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 39, no. 5, SAGE Publications, 2009, pp. 519-35.
Government reformers in the United States have recently focused on running public agencies more like private firms by emphasizing economic rewards, such as merit pay. Meanwhile, a body of literature has grown that indicates that public servants respond to factors that financially based reward initiatives tend to ignore.
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,. Summary Proceedings of the Women, Jobs and Wisconsin’s Green Economy Public Policy Roundtable. Wisconsin Women’s Council, 2009.
Held October 29, 2009, in Madison, Wisconsin, this publication provides a brief summary of the discussion and findings of the Women, Jobs and Wisconsin’s Green Economy Public Policy Roundtable. COWS was a key participant and the Proceedings document many of our views on the Green Economy.
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In what will play a major role in Wisconsin’s economic recovery, more than 426,000 “middle-skill” job openings — those that require more than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year degree — are projected for the state by 2016, concludes this study by The Workforce Alliance (TWA) and the Skills2Compete-Wisconsin campaign, of which of COWS is a lead partner.
The report, which tracks Wisconsin’s jobs at the middle-skill level, notes that funds from federal economic recovery legislation, especially the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, are expected to create more than one million new jobs across the country and that Wisconsin has a number of exemplary middle-skill education and training opportunities. These opportunities must continue to keep up with the anticipated demand for middle-skill workers.
Skills2Compete-Wisconsin believes every Wisconsinite should have access to education or training past high school — leading to a technical college degree or diploma, occupational credential, industry certification, or one’s first two years of college — to be pursued at whatever point and pace makes sense for individual workers and industries.
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,. Key Middle-Skill Opportunities in Wisconsin. COWS, 2009.
Developed by COWS for Regional Industry Skills Education (RISE), Key Middle-Skill Opportunities in Wisconsinprovides a detailed look at projected job opportunities and wages in well-paying occupations that typically do not require a four-year college degree.
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,. Wisconsin RISE Target Population. COWS, 2009.
Developed by COWS for Regional Industry Skills Education (RISE), this report breaks down demographically those individuals who could use higher skills and better wages.
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