High Road Strategy Center

State and Local Policy Publications

Below is a list of our reports related to state and local publications, in descending order by year published. Explore other topics here and all High Road Strategy Center reports here.

  • Parker, E., and J. Rogers. “Building the High Road in Metro Areas: Sectoral Training and Employment Projects”. Rekindling the Movement: Labor’s Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century, Cornell University, ILR Press, 2001, pp. 256-72.

    This chapter discusses the need for unions to take explicit leadership in in the restructuring process of the “high road”- a road of new technologies, work systems, and skills, and to bargain over the resulting gains. The authors assert that labor-led sectoral training and employment projects are just one type of initiative that can help improve worker performance.

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  • Katz, B., and J. Rogers. “Metropolitan Power: The Next Urban Agenda”. The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement, Westview Press, 2001, pp. 189-10.

    A chapter in The Next Agenda: Blueprint for the New Progressive Movement, is a discussion of the challenges, including poverty, housing, transportation, and demographic factors, that metropolitan regions face. The next urban agenda should consist of the things it takes to harness the economic power of metro areas, improve the quality and equity of life within them, and move the country more generally onto the high-road of shared prosperity.

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  • Rogers, J. The State of Working Wisconsin: Update 2001. COWS, 2001.

    The State of Working Wisconsin: Update 2001 is a brief investigation of the effects of the recent economic slowdown on workers in the state, as well as offering for the first time data on family hours of work and workers’ benefits, in addition to standard data on wages, unemployment and job growth.

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  • Rogers, J. “Punishing Inequalities: Race and Criminal Justice in Wisconsin”. Wisconsin Academy Review, Vol. 47, no. 4, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 2001, pp. 16-23.

    Wisconsin has the second most racially tilted criminal justice system in the country. Three UW- Madison law school professors put their heads together to illustrate the problem and point toward some solutions.

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  • Rogers, J. United States in Not Blameless. Madison Newspapers, Inc., 2001, p. 11A.

    Sustaining Wisconsin Editorial
    September 17, 2001

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  • Rogers, J. What’s Left? A New Life for Progressivism.”. Los Angeles Times, 2001.

    Reissued by The Nation (web edition, www.thenation.com, November 27, 2001).

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  • Rogers, J. La Fin De l’innocence. La Revue Nouvelle, 2001, pp. 36-39.
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  • Rogers, J. The Man From Elroy. The Nation, 2001.
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  • Rogers, J. How ’Bout Some Facts, Not Spin, on the State of the State?. WisPolitics, 2001.
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  • Rogers, J. A Wish List For Wisconsin. The Capital Times, 2001.

    Sustaining Wisconsin Column
    Published in The Capital Times but often republished around the state, these were part of an 18-month public education campaign COWS ran before the 2002 WI gubernatorial primary election.
    NB: Not responsible for article titles.

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