The recently proposed Living Wage Ordinance for Milwaukee County would establish a floor on wages of $12.45 per hour for the work done in support of the public priorities achieved through county contracts, leases, and …
Press Release
Fast Food's Cheap Meals Cost Us All
Fast food workers in Wisconsin make so little money that they routinely rely on government programs in order to make ends meet. The public costs of fast food jobs amount to $166 million in the …
Raise the Floor Milwaukee
Raising the low-wage floor will improve quality of life for the 100,000 workers in poverty-wage jobs in the city, and for a roughly equal number of poverty-wage workers in the suburban counties around city, says …
The State of Working Wisconsin 2012
The Great Recession officially ended three years ago now, and the recovery is—or at least should be—well underway. But this Labor Day 2012 finds too many Wisconsin workers waiting, says The State of Working Wisconsin …
Pulling Apart
The income disparity between Wisconsin’s richest and poorest families continues to widen, according to Pulling Apart 2012, a new report by COWS and the Wisconsin Budget Project. This analysis of Wisconsin Department of Revenue data …