The State of Working Wisconsin 2015: Facts & Figures

  • September 4, 2015
  • COWS
  • Laura Dresser and Joel Rogers, with Javier Rodriguez and Siying Fu

For Labor Day weekend, COWS has released The State of Working Wisconsin 2015 Facts & Figures, an overview of the critical issues facing working people in the state. From the perspective of working Wisconsin, the news this weekend is not good. Wisconsin faces slow growth, extreme racial disparity in unemployment, long-term stagnation in wages, and one-fourth of workers struggling in poverty-wage jobs.