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Contact: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced that U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan has approved Wisconsin’s application to receive nearly $180 million through the federal Educations Jobs Fund to save and create education jobs. “Wisconsin was one of the first states to submit its application for Education Jobs funding, which...

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CONTACT: Karen Hickey 414-573-7579 Eddie Vale 631-334-8191 AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and others to also participate in Labor Day celebration On Monday, Sept. 6, President Obama and Secretary of Labor Solis will join union families in Milwaukee for Labor Day. The event is one of hundreds that working people are holding across the country to call for good jobs and a strong,...

Entrepreneur Ben Hobbins has been selected to receive one of Wisconsin’s most coveted awards for entrepreneurship, a 2010 ‘’Innovation Champion’’ award, presented by WISC -Wisconsin Innovation Service Center, UW EX, DEED, and Wisconsin Small Business Development Centers. Each year, WISC selects individuals and organizations for this award in recognition of ‘’work in advancing entrepreneurship in Wisconsin and its positive...

Media Contact: Sada Kempf, Senior PR Associate (920) 232-2230 Sada.Kempf@cliftoncpa.com MILWAUKEE, Wis. (September 1, 2010) – In a recent survey of executives by the IT Governance Institute, half of the executives indicated that IT is very important to their organization, yet noted that IT matters were discussed only on an ad hoc basis at the board level. This is surprising since stronger IT...

Contact: Donna Gilson 608-224-5130 MADISON – Registration is open until Sept. 10 for the annual humane officer training course offered by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. The course runs Oct. 4-8 in Madison. Humane officers investigate cases of animal abuse and neglect, and they must be trained and certified. There is still space available in the...

CONTACT: Chris Barncard, 608-890-0465, barncard@wisc.edu MADISON - A pair of young fusion researchers will be working with the support of the Department of Energy as they work on graduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Carson Cook and Lauren Garrison were among 150 graduate students tapped this summer for Department of Energy Graduate Fellowships in Science, Mathematics and Engineering, providing them...

Media Contact: Stephanie East, General Manager Farrell’s Extreme Bodyshaping stephanieeast@extremebodyshaping.com 608-807-8093 Popular fitness franchise opens its doors in Madison on July 31 Madison, Wis. (September 2, 2010) — Farrell’s Extreme Bodyshaping (FXB) a popular fitness franchise based in Iowa, congratulates FXB – Madison on opening the newest FXB workout location at 202 S. Gammon Rd, Ste 100, in Madison, Wis. The first 10-Week Challenge at...

CONTACT: Timothy M. Smeeding, smeeding@lafollette.wisc.edu, 608-890-1317; Joanna Young Marks, jmarks@ssc.wisc.edu MADISON - The second Wisconsin Poverty Report shows the rate of poverty in Wisconsin worsened in 2008, with more than 11 percent of the state's population living in need, including one in seven children and one in 10 elderly residents. Produced by the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the...

CONTACT: Brad Collins Stateline World Trade Association (920) 222-1041 info@slwta.org Beloit, WI – The Stateline World Trade Association (SLWTA) welcomes Jan Blaho to its first meeting of the SLWTA season. US exports are up 17.7% in the first half of 2010. Is your company keeping up with the rest of the industry? Come and see how the EX-IM Bank can help you clear...