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Claiming to have a workforce strategy without a real strategy to attract and retain people makes little sense.
By Tom Hefty
June 28, 2017

UW students can’t launch Uber-like haircut business in Wisconsin without action from Legislature

Albert Walker, whose clients include many Packers players, has years of experience but can’t run his own shop

Ex-offender Albert Walker and Packer Mike Daniels discuss Walker’s new barber lounge in Green Bay. The shop is in jeopardy due to an onerous and unnecessary state licensing law.

Wisconsin currently licenses hundreds of professions. Some of those are unobjectionable, but other licenses are problematic.

Beauty school graduate from Milwaukee just wants to work but has been thwarted for over a year.

“How often do ethics change in massage therapy?” she wonders.

“We’re not playing with people’s lives. We’re playing with people’s hair,” Krissy Hudack says.

Beauty school graduate just wants to work but has been thwarted for over a year.

“We’re not playing with people’s lives. We’re playing with people’s hair,” says northern Wisconsin salon owner.

Wisconsin cannot afford the status quo on its corrections policy. Programs across the nation that are working to reduce recidivism should be part of the state’s strategy.
Authors include Michael Flaherty, Marie Rohde, Michael Jahr, Janet Weyandt, Joe Stumpe and Gerard Robinson.

Milwaukee JobsWork pursues a multi-level business strategy based on the conviction that sustainable employment leads to self-sufficiency and local business growth is necessary for expanded opportunities.

The Joseph Project addresses regional employment challenges with a free-market approach.

We need to know why nearly half of liberal arts graduates from our state’s top university regret the way they spent their money.

Many of LakeView Technology Academy’s graduates are leaving high school with half of an associate’s degree in their pockets. Others are entering four-year universities as second-semester freshmen.

Lori A. Weyers, president of Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, says the IT worker shortage is reaching a “crisis” stage.

Only now are businesses realizing that traditional college curriculums are not meeting the growing demand of companies such as Epic and are turning to technical colleges to fill the gap.

Some folks in Wisconsin believe that we are simply another part of the federal government and should march in lockstep.

Building new facilities often do little to alleviate the scourge of crime-ridden neighborhoods, which just get pushed to the background — until they explode.

Badger Institute President Mike Nichols testifies in favor of 2015 AB 32 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Labor on May 27, 2015

2015 AB 32 would eliminate the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage.