Wisconsin home sales fell 2.8% over the year in May amid rising prices and limited housing supply, though year-to-date sales are still above the same point last year.  The Wisconsin Realtors Association’s latest report, released this morning, shows 6,553 homes were sold in the state last month. That’s down from

A UW-Madison think tank has issued a report criticizing Wisconsin’s “paltry” minimum wage, and called for boosting it to $20 by 2030 to benefit more than a fourth of all workers in the state.  The High Road Strategy Center, which describes itself as a think-and-do tank, this week rolled out

Sheboygan County officials have launched a new startup accelerator for local entrepreneurs, seeking to drive business growth in the area of packaged retail goods.  The Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation on Friday launched the Consumer Packaged Goods Blueprint Program alongside local entrepreneurship resource company Startups Built Simply. The inaugural cohort

Infleqtion, a leading quantum tech firm with offices in Madison, is accelerating with $550 million in new funding after going public earlier this year.  Chief Scientist and UW-Madison physics Prof. Mark Saffman addressed attendees of yesterday’s launch event for the Wisconsin Quantum Alliance in Madison, organized by the Wisconsin Technology

Wisconsin ranked eighth nationally for overall child well-being, but racial disparities in the state persist, according to a new Annie E. Casey Foundation report for 2024.  The charitable foundation’s report evaluates child well-being in states since 2019 based on several economic, education, health and family and community-related factors, such as

Labor organizers say next week’s union election for nurses at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital will be the state’s largest in the private sector in at least a quarter-century.  SEIU Wisconsin yesterday announced the National Labor Relations Board has set June 11 as the date for the union election, after

While Wisconsin will need less new housing than previously projected to maintain the status quo, a new Forward Analytics report argues the state should set its sights higher than “building for a low-end estimate.”  The research arm of the Wisconsin Counties Association yesterday released “Not Enough: Wisconsin’s Housing Outlook.”  The

A Green Bay lawmaker is urging locals to back a proposed moratorium on data centers in Brown County, though a lack of county-wide zoning could undercut the proposal’s impact.  Rep. Amaad Rivera-Wagner, D-Green Bay, yesterday issued a statement encouraging county residents to “attend, testify, and make their voices heard” in

While Microsoft recently reversed course on requiring non-disclosure agreements for data centers, a Great Lakes water policy advocate says there’s more transparency issues to address for these controversial projects.  The company in March announced its new approach after realizing the NDAs were “working counter to” its community relations efforts around

Milwaukee has the highest housing price-to-income ratio among major metropolitan areas in the Midwest, as well as one of the lowest rates of new housing development.  That’s according to Moody’s Analytics data used in a recent New York Times analysis, which illustrates housing affordability challenges across the United States. The

The Wisconsin Early Childhood Association warns the state’s childcare industry will face widespread shutdowns and pared-back services without sustained government support.  The group on Friday released a report analyzing the impact of pandemic-era stabilization funding running dry this summer, following several years of federal help for the struggling industry. That

A computer science expert at UW-Madison expects major AI firms will face a dwindling economic advantage as widely available models become more powerful, while companies running data centers will thrive.  Patrick McDaniel, a professor in the university’s School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences, was a featured speaker during the

Successful exporting often takes a nuanced understanding of the local culture along with market-specific product customization, according to Wisconsin company leaders whose products are sold worldwide.  They spoke yesterday during Wisconsin World Trade Day in Pewaukee, offering insights from their experiences with global markets — both successes and failures.  Gautam