{"id":860,"date":"2008-10-30T07:05:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=860"},"modified":"2008-10-22T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T14:49:23","slug":"state-of-working-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/860","title":{"rendered":"State of Working Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>This is a stressful time for workers.<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; So begins the 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cows.org\/pdf\/rp-soww-08.pdf\"><em>State of Working Wisconsin<\/em><\/a>, a report produced biennially by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cows.org\/default.asp\">COWS<\/a> (Center on Wisconsin Strategy), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank interested in improving economic performance and living standards in Wisconsin and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings of the report include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wisconsin&#8217;s economic growth is soft, jobs are falling, and manufacturing is slipping<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin&#8217;s median wage ($15.17 per hour in 2007) is down compared to 2006-2007<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin&#8217;s median family income is well below the 2000 benchmark (Wisconsin\u2019s median family income has fallen at an annual rate of -1.5 percent per year, while the national family income has fallen at half that speed.)<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin workers&#8217; benefits are on the decline and low-wage workers are most vulnerable<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin\u2019s extreme inequality continues: racial disparity exists in the state (The poverty gap between whites and blacks in Milwaukee was the highest disparity posted by any of the nation\u2019s top 100 metropolitan areas.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the full report online for more information, including many statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is a stressful time for workers.&#8221; So begins the 2008 State of Working Wisconsin, a report produced biennially by COWS (Center on Wisconsin Strategy), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank interested in improving economic performance and living standards in Wisconsin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1223,1378,1379,338,311],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-economy","tag-labor","tag-poverty","tag-statistics","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}