Press Release

Contact: Laura Dresser, Associate Director, ldresser@cows.org, 608-695-9065 Today, COWS launched the State of Working Wisconsin 2020, which tracks the ongoing economic indicators of the COVID-19 crisis in the state. In just a few months, COVID-19 …

This Labor Day, with the memory of the Great Recession of 2007 now fading from memory, workers across Wisconsin have this good news to celebrate. The unemployment rate in the state has been consistently low. …

[MADISON, WI] The state of Wisconsin currently has one of the biggest energy production deficits of any state in the nation; $14.4 billion left the state in 2016 to pay for imported energy. A new …

Madison, WI— In Wisconsin, policy makers seem to increasingly assume that work, and work alone, can provide a decent standard of living. However, working families continue to face a slew of challenges – low wages, inadequate …

Madison, WI— Today, COWS released Wisconsin’s Extreme Racial Disparity 2017. The report shines a light on the fact that racial disparity in Wisconsin is, indeed, extreme. Wisconsin is among the worst of states considering disparity between …

In The State of Working Wisconsin 2016, COWS finds that the long shadow of the Great Recession is finally lifting in Wisconsin. The state has more jobs than ever before, unemployment rates have fallen to …

The income gap between the rich and the poor remains near its highest level ever, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Budget Project and COWS at UW Madison. The wide chasm between the …

MADISON (December 17, 2015) — A new report released today in Wisconsin by COWS highlights innovative and practical ways states can build job quality into future workforce development policy and practice using state workforce plans …

Madison, WI— Today, COWS has released Putting Families First in Wisconsin: Estimating Utilization and Financing of Paid Family Leave Insurance. Paid Family Leave Insurance allows workers to take short-term paid leave in order to care for …