Wisconsin Job Watch

June 2010 data shows a dip in jobs, unemployment down.

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About COWS

The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) has deep roots in the state of Wisconsin, but its work has now grown to address issues, organizations, and leaders across the nation. COWS is more than a traditional policy center. It's an action center, a think-and-do tank. COWS and its affiliate organizations serve as field laboratories for high-road economic development - a competitive market economy of shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and capable democratic government.

COWS has a long history of creating collaborations and working collaboratively - with business, government, labor, and communities. Among our current projects, a number focus on encouraging progressive innovations in states and metro regions. Our areas of impact are wide-ranging, including workforce development, green energy and jobs, transit, and health care.

COWS is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, famous for the “Wisconsin Idea” that the University should influence and improve people’s lives beyond the classroom. COWS has often been called "the Wisconsin Idea in action."

COWS was founded in 1992 by Joel Rogers, professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology at UW-Madison and a longtime commentator on economic development and democratic institutions. Rogers founded COWS to pursue practical, on-the-ground strategies to promote the high road in Wisconsin and throughout the country.

COWS current and past funders include: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Carolyn Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Garfield Foundation, Living Cities, the Joyce Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the Wallace Global Fund and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.

COWS publishes a free electronic newsletter, COWS Notes. Read COWS Notes. Subscribe. 

COWS is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, educational, and charitable organization. Download a copy of our tax-exempt status letters.