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On unemployment, Tim Michels suggests he would support shortening benefit time period
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMADISON - Republican candidate for governor Tim Michels is suggesting he would as governor shorten...
Unemployment insurance payments are slower to arrive after COVID-19. See how your state compares.
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoShortly after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the jobless rate in the U.S. skyrocketed. The...
Wisconsin voters back expanding work requirements for welfare benefits. Here's why the vote is...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWisconsin voters supported in an advisory referendum Tuesday a work requirement for recipients of...
Republicans bills seek to shorten the number of weeks unemployment would be paid, tighten other...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMADISON - Republicans are hoping to cut the amount of time unemployed Wisconsinites can receive...
Scapegoating unemployed is tired political trope. Here’s what works to fix labor shortages.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWisconsin’s labor shortage is not the result of lazy people gaming the unemployment system. Yet...
Flexible hours, child care: Some Wisconsin employers raise benefits to attract job seekers
The Post-Crescent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAPPLETON - When the pandemic caused a majority of employees to work from home, many found a schedule...
Black Wisconsinites were half as likely as white applicants to get pandemic unemployment payments,...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMADISON – A federal watchdog agency is urging Wisconsin to look into racial disparities in how a...
Tighter unemployment benefits and rules on gas-powered engines. Here is the Senate passed today
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMADISON - Unemployment, gas powered engines, bus drivers and more were on the agenda as the state Senate met for the first time this summer. Here's what the Senate voted on. Tightening unemployment ...
Wisconsin's general fund hit $6.7 billion and other takeaways from policy forum report
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo Finance· 1 month agoMADISON — The state's financial condition is the strongest on record, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum. The analysis, which comes four years after the arrival ...
DWD says upgrades to unemployment system on schedule, within budget
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMADISON — The state Department of Workforce Development is about halfway through a modernization...