COWS in the News

“I don’t want to give the impression that this is some sort of workers’ paradise in any sector,” Dresser said. The tight labor market gave employees some additional power, “but there’s a lot of ways …

“I think that we have a context where workers, individually and collectively, are demanding more of work,” said Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison think tank COWS. In …

“What a ‘flat tax’ does in Wisconsin is let the richest residents of the state off the hook for taxes,” said Laura Dresser, Associate Director, [COWS], University of Wisconsin- Madison. “The state doesn’t need policy …

Despite the gains, racial and gender disparities persist, a report by [COWS] at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found… “The distance that black and brown workers are from white workers in terms of wages is substantial,” …

Laura Dresser, associate director of the COWS economic think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said tight labor markets and the COVID-19 pandemic have put more power in the hands of workers. “I think workers …

Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director of [COWS], a progressive policy organization, told Workday Magazine and the Prospect that the push to erode child labor protections is “less about getting people to pack …

“Workers have a sense of the leverage and the value they have,” said labor economist Laura Dresser, an associate director for [COWS] at UW-Madison. “You can see that in the high rate of churn.”

Dresser shares her perspective on demographic trends affecting the workforce, as more workers age out than the number joining the labor market. This issue is particularly significant in rural parts of Wisconsin, the report notes. …

A recent workforce study from a UW policy institute says that conditions have broadly improved for Wisconsin workers. We speak with the associate director of the UW-Madison think tank COWS about how national labor trends …

Dresser, whose organization recently published the 2022 edition of its “State of Working Wisconsin” report, pointed to the spike in union activity as “the forefront” of a wider surge in labor organizing that also includes non-unionized workers …