From DOGE spending cuts and near-constant shifts in U.S. trade policy, to the “Big Beautiful Bill,” mass deportations and extra, it has been an unpredictable yr for the U.S. financial system. However this yr’s State of Working Wisconsin report explores what it’s actually appeared like for employees throughout our state and what the long run may maintain.
Compiled by UW-Madison’s High Road Strategy Center, the report “analyzes the newest information obtainable on wages, jobs and unions to offer clear data on the financial system as skilled by the working folks of the state.”

The State of Working: Wisconsin
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Laura Dresser is the affiliate director of the middle, and he or she joins Lake Impact’s Pleasure Powers to discover the findings of the report.
“You see this huge redistribution within the federal funds, this huge strolling away from imposing labor requirements or permitting employees their rights on the federal degree and also you see these tarriff and anti-immigration insurance policies which are going to gradual the financial system down,” Dresser says. “And that image collectively has me very involved about what’s to return.”