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The value of goods exported from Wisconsin reached a record high in 2023. Wisconsin’s top international trade partners in both imports and exports were Canada, Mexico, China, and Germany.

Waiving the work requirement led to an increase of 780 adults receiving FoodShare on average per county per month from 2012-2023 in Wisconsin.

Government overregulation is imperiling the start of a $1 billion plan to expand broadband service to the hardest-to-reach places in Wisconsin.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ new housing down payment assistance proposal, which would give $25,000 to qualifying first-time home buyers, would dramatically increase housing prices, particularly in Midwestern metro areas such as Milwaukee, according to a new study by scholars at the American Enterprise Institute.

“There are communities that have decided they just don’t want to grow,” said Chad Lawler, who heads the Madison Area Builders Association.

Wisconsin accounted for 53% of the nation’s total mink pelt production in 2023, down 10 percent from the previous year.

By the numbers Credit card debt in Wisconsin has reached a level not seen since the 2008 financial crisis, data…

How do other states without an income tax fund essential services? Under what circumstances would this be feasible in Wisconsin?

A county-by-county analysis shows that while some Wisconsinites residents are seeing real growth in their wages, others are falling behind the rise in prices.

People are leaving Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa and, according to a new study by the Tax Foundation, the loss of state revenue and the population migration are closely tied to punitive tax structures in those states.

Wisconsinites’ real incomes are falling while expenses continue to rise, figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show.

If everything works out as under-promised, Microsoft will make the biggest single technology investment ever in the state of Wisconsin — a transformative infusion of billions of dollars to develop more than 1,500 acres in Racine County.

Wisconsin will need to build 200,000 housing units by 2030 to accommodate all the people who want to live and work here. Sheboygan County is a microcosm of the problem — but on the forefront of a possible solution.

According to a new report, Milwaukee County is a place where economic mobility fell sharply for kids born between 1978 and 1992.

Specialized docket wins bipartisan support but faces a changed Supreme Court Advocates for a business court system operating since 2017…

Wisconsin’s economic output has been sluggish since the recovering from a pandemic-induced contraction, inflation-adjusted data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show.

Demand for legal cannabis products is elastic, so states must consider this fact when setting tax rates. If taxes are set too high, legalization will not deter users from exiting legacy illegal markets.

Data centers chug electricity like undergrads drink beer, and the advent of artificial intelligence — which uses, we’re told, about 10 times the electricity as conventional searches — makes power demand soar.

Wisconsin house prices are among the fastest growing in the country, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency. The Badger State experienced a 9.9% increase in the FHFA House Price Index between April 2023 and April 2024.

A basket of goods and services that would have cost $1,000 in January 2014 would now cost $1,304, according to the BLS’ consumer price index for the Midwest.