Dept. of Justice: Van Hollen and Gassman announce workers to receive settlement payments in First American Funding Company claim
DOJ CONTACT: Bill Cosh, 608-266-1221
DWD CONTACT: Chris Marschman, 608-261-6705
NEWS RELEASE
MADISON – Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that the Wisconsin Department of Justice has recovered $42,887.16 from First American Funding Company, LLC, for violations of State minimum wage laws between the dates of June, 2004 and April, 2006. The Department of Justice represents its client agency, the Department...
DOR, DCF: Tax credits available for low-income workers and families
Contact: Jessica Iverson – DOR, (608) 266-2300, jessica.iverson@revenue.wi.gov
Ryan Reszel – DCF, (608) 266-9000, dcfmedia@wisconsin.gov
Children and Families, Revenue work together to increase tax credit claims
MADISON – As part of EITC Awareness Day, a nationwide outreach campaign, Department of Children and Families Secretary Reggie Bicha and Revenue Secretary Roger Ervin today encouraged state residents to check their eligibility...
State dairy producers still expanding, adding jobs
Quick: name a critical Wisconsin industry that is a) looking to expand; b) adding jobs; and c) not seeking any bailout money during these challenging economic times.
If you said the dairy industry, you’d be right. At a two-day conference in Green Bay hosted by the Dairy Business Association of Wisconsin, the industry’s optimism shone in sharp contrast to the...
(WisBusiness) FRI News Summary — 30 Jan. 2009
From WisBusiness.com ...
The Governor’s Business Plan Contest has a new feature this year: a youth competition aimed at high schoolers with an entrepreneurial bent.
Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council – which has hosted the competition for the past five years – said young people in Dane County can win money for coming up with good...
WisBusiness: Stimulus package could boost Milwaukee’s workforce development efforts
By David A. Wise
WisBusiness.com
The agency responsible for workforce development in Milwaukee could see its budget triple under the proposed federal stimulus, the agency's leader said this week.
Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board President Donald Sykes told Milwaukee Democrats at their monthly meeting that the agency currently receives about $10 million to $14 million in federal money annually to carry out...
