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DocumentRogers, J. Devolve This!. Vol. 279, The Nation, 2004, pp. 20-28.
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DocumentRogers, J., Institute for America’s Future, and Perryman Group. New Energy for America: The Apollo Jobs Report. Apollo Alliance, 2004.
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Bernhardt, A., and J. Rogers. “Taking the High Road in Milwaukee: The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership”. Partnering for Change: How Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice , M.E. Sharpe, 2004, pp. 231-48.
Wisconsin has been home to a series of interrelated partnerships between labor and employers that have built institutions to support high-road business practice around quality, worker training, innovation, and cooperation. COWS has been pivotal in these experiments.
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DocumentRogers, J. “Devolve This! Toward a Progressive Strategy in the States”. Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right, Avalon/Nation Books, 2004, pp. 173-89.
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Rogers, J. Progressives Should Vote Edwards. The Nation, 2004.
Reprinted in The Capital Times as “ Joel Rogers: Progressives should vote for Edwards as best on issues,” February 12, 2004.
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DocumentRogers, J. “Unfulfilled Promise”. The Nation, Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2004.
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Dresser, L., and J. Rogers. State of Working Wisconsin 2004. COWS, 2004.
The State of Working Wisconsin offers an analysis of unemployment and underemployment in the state.
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Dahlk, K. The Impact of Budget Cuts on Wisconsin’s Job Centers: Staff Losses and Service Declines. COWS, 2004.
Wisconsin’s Job Centers were created in the 1980’s to serve as facilities where job seekers and employers can “one-stop shop” for a range of employment-related services. Budget cuts have strained these facilities’ abilities to provide resources to the workers and employers of the state. This report looks at the impact shrinking budgets have on the job centers and consequently on Wisconsin’s workforce development.
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Bernhardt, A., and J. Rogers. Taking the High Road in Milwaukee: The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership. Vol. 5, no. 3, Working USA, 2004, pp. 109-30.
Wisconsin has been home to a series of interrelated partnerships between labor and employers that have built institutions to support high-road business practice around quality, worker training, innovation, and cooperation. COWS has been pivotal in these experiments.
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Rogers, J. “Labor Politics in an Age of Fear”. The Future of Labor Unions: Organized Labor in the 21st Century, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 2004, pp. 187-98.
Chapter 8 in editors Julius G. Getman and Ray Marshall’s The Future of Labor Unions: Organized Labor in the 21st Century.
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Why progressives in America, especially included in the labor force, are politically week during the George W. Bush. era. The US labor force carries much weight and can inevitably propel the move from the “low road” to the “high road” of economic prosperity.