High Road Strategy Center

Publications by Joel Rogers

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  • Dresser, L., J. Rogers, and L. Vasquez. The State of Working Wisconsin 2025. High Road Strategy Center.

    The High Road Strategy Center presents the State of Working Wisconsin 2025, our annual snapshot of the state’s labor landscape. This year’s report dives into the latest trends in jobs, wages, and unions, with new sections highlighting federal policy impacts and the experiences of Wisconsin’s immigrant workers. Since 1996, SOWW has provided an honest look at how the state’s economy affects working people.

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  • Dresser, L., J. Rogers, C. Towne, and L. Vasquez. The State of Working Wisconsin 2024. High Road Strategy Center.

    In celebration of Wisconsin workers, the High Road Strategy Center releases 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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  • Aquiles-Sanchez, P., L. Dresser, and J. Rogers. The State of Working Wisconsin 2023. COWS.

    In celebration of Wisconsin workers, COWS releases The State of Working Wisconsin 2023 with the most recent data available on wages, jobs, disparities, and unions to build a stronger understanding of what is going on in the state’s labor market.

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  • Aquiles-Sanchez, P., L. Dresser, A. Milewski, and J. Rogers. The State of Working Wisconsin 2022. COWS, 2022.

    In celebration of Wisconsin workers, COWS releases The State of Working Wisconsin 2022 with the most recent data available on wages, jobs, disparities, and unions to build a stronger understanding of what is going on in the state’s labor market. Released for Labor Day 2022, this year’s report also features a series of profiles highlighting stories of workers organizing across Wisconsin.

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  • Briggs , X. de S., and J. Rogers. “A More Democratic Federalism?”. Democracy, Vol. 62, 2021.
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  • Bernstein, S., and J. Rogers. 7 Steps to Municipal Resilience & Recovery. COWS, 2021, p. 9.
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  • Dresser, L., A. Kanter, and J. Rogers. The State of Working Wisconsin 2021. COWS, 2021.

    Released for Labor Day 2021, the State of Working Wisconsin report focuses on how working people are doing and continues to shine a spotlight on the state’s brutal Black-white disparities.

    A project of COWS, the State of Working Wisconsin has presented the workers’ perspective on the economy in the state for more than two decades: who is winning, and who is being left out; where is disparity growing; and what’s happening to the economic chasm separating Black and white workers in the state.

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  • Rogers, J., K. Knutson, and M. Bell. Productive Places in a Post-Pandemic Era: A Roadmap for Cities and Counties. Envisio Blog, 2020.
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  • Rogers, J. How About Productive Democracy for a Change. no. 1, Social Policy, 2020, pp. 19-25.
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