TUE AM News: DWD leader highlights groups targeted with employment initiatives; WEDC touting new livability rankings
-- The head of the state DWD says focusing on potential workers in Wisconsin is a "much better solution” to workforce challenges than attracting those from outside the state.
Speaking yesterday to WisconsinEye, Department of Workforce Development Secretary-designee Amy Pechacek highlighted four groups of state residents the agency is targeting with various employment initiatives.
Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.: Livability rankings put Wisconsin tops
Contact: David Callender, 608.210.6706Releases online at:wedc.org/newsroom
Six Wisconsin cities make top 100 in Best Places to Live rankings
MADISON, WI. JULY 25, 2022 – New national rankings prove something that Wisconsinites already know – Wisconsin is a great place to live and work.
Six Wisconsin cities made Livability.com’s 100...
MON AM News: Report details ag conservation program progress; DWD economist highlights lagging jobs in leisure and hospitality
-- A new DATCP report highlights a 23 percent increase in the number of acres where conservation efforts are being practiced by farmers.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection on Friday released the 2020-2021 impact report for the agency’s Producer-Led Watershed Protection Grant Program. Through this program, DATCP provides funding to...
DWD economist highlights lagging jobs in leisure and hospitality
The chief economist for the state Department of Workforce Development says employment in the leisure and hospitality sector is lagging due to fewer people working multiple jobs.
In a recent media briefing, Dennis Winters noted Wisconsin’s leisure and hospitality jobs remain about 13,300 from the previous peak, or about 95 percent of that pre-pandemic...
FRI AM News: Realtor argues rising mortgage rates are ‘long term positive’; WisBusiness: the Podcast with Chad Mason, founder and CEO of Advanced Ionics
-- The head of Stark Company Realtors in Madison argues in a recent analysis that rising mortgage rates are “a long term positive” for the housing market.
“Do not believe the narrative that rising mortgage rates are ruining the housing market,” company President David Stark wrote in a summer report. “The truth is just...
Realtor argues rising mortgage rates are ‘long term positive’ for housing market
The head of Stark Company Realtors in Madison argues in a recent analysis that rising mortgage rates are “a long term positive” for the housing market.
“Do not believe the narrative that rising mortgage rates are ruining the housing market,” company President David Stark wrote in a summer report. “The truth is just the...
