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Gov. Evers quietly visits two small businesses in Oconto to hear how they’ll use state money
OCONTO – Gov. Tony Evers stopped at two small Oconto businesses that received $10,000 grants from the governor’s Main Street Bounceback program.
State agencies to host virtual listening sessions for Wisconsin Environmental Equity Dashboard
Gov. Tony Evers recently announced that four state agencies and partnering organizations are developing the Wisconsin Environmental Equity Tool (WEET), a public health and environmental equity mapping dashboard.
State agencies to host virtual listening sessions for Wisconsin environmental equity dashboard
Gov. Tony Evers recently announced that four state agencies and partnering organizations are developing the Wisconsin Environmental Equity Tool (WEET), a public health and environmental equity mapping dashboard.
Wisconsin school districts encouraged to apply for Fab Labs grants
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is now accepting applications for the sixth year of its Fabrication Laboratories (Fab Labs) Grant Program, which provides funding to help public schools build or expand fab labs.
Workforce Innovation Grants will help find long-term solutions to state’s labor needs
Wisconsin’s workers are always on our minds, especially now as our state and our economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Every worker is so vital, the value of their work significant.
Wisconsin school districts encouraged to apply for Fab Labs Grants
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is now accepting applications for the sixth year of its Fabrication Laboratories (Fab Labs) Grant Program, which provides funding to help public schools build or expand fab labs.
Community returns to shuttered rural school in Iowa County
The desks are gone, along with the students, teachers, playground equipment and concerts. The 2018 closure of the elementary school was a blow to this eastern Iowa County village, and required students here to be bused to Spring Green.
Testimony of WEDC Deputy Secretary Sam Rikkers to the Assembly Committee On Jobs And The Economy
Since the pandemic began, Wisconsin businesses – large and small, urban and rural, in every corner of the state – have demonstrated remarkable ingenuity, tenacity, and resiliency. Taken as a whole, Wisconsin’s economy has largely returned to its pre-pandemic status. Wisconsin’s unemployment rate is among the lowest in the country, and its labor participation rate – the share of working-age folks currently in the workforce – is among the highest. In other words, Wisconsin is getting back to work.
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