Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said at that hiring pace, it'll be a long time before Wisconsin makes up the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in April.
Laura Dresser, a labor economist and the associate director at COWS, said that in a place like Milwaukee, concerns about job loss are based on an outdated narrative that places manufacturing at the center of the economy.
Laura Dresser, said prior economic declines were led by male-dominated fields, such as construction and manufacturing. The pandemic-driven decline, she said, has strongly affected areas – such as the restaurant and education industries – with a high number of women workers.
Laura Dresser, said prior economic declines were led by male-dominated fields, such as construction and manufacturing. The pandemic-driven decline, she said, has strongly affected areas – such as the restaurant and education industries – with a high number of women workers.
“It’s bad news and it’s hard to see,” said Laura Dresser, associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a think-tank commonly referred to as COWS.
With October’s report, “What we have long worried about has finally come — the turn back to job loss instead of job growth,” says Laura Dresser, associate director of COWS, a University of Wisconsin research and policy center that examines the economy’s impact on working people.
"It's bad news and it's hard to see," said Laura Dresser, associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a think-tank commonly referred to as COWS. "The recovery was definitely getting weaker across these last few months, but now it's tipped to the other direction where we actually lost jobs and that's really worrisome about the economy, and also, given the context of COVID in the state right now, a real challenge."
The pandemic is disproportionately affecting women because of the way it is hitting certain industries — like child care and hospitality — especially hard.
The latest downturn has had a disproportionate effect on service industry workers. A large share are Black and Latino; the majority are women. Full article here.
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"The increase in the disease can put a real damper on the economic growth, absolutely," Laura Dresser said. "And we're seeing real increases right now."
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Wisconsin's unemployment rate fell to 5.4 percent in September, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Thursday by the state Department of Workforce Development (DWD).
"We're still going (in) the right direction. Jobs are increasing," said Laura Dresser.
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The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) cites COWS report Wisconsin Opportunity in Domestic Energy Production: The Economic and Health Benefits of 100% In-State Energy Production in its report to Governor Tony Evers.
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Wages, benefits, union rights and Black lives take center stage in Labor Day 2020 roundtable discussion. Full article here.
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The proximity of these three hot spots shines a light on an under-appreciated facet of life in the Midwest: Inequality there is, by some measures, as high or higher than in any other part of the country. A 2019 report assembled by several progressive-leaning think tanks shows the region dominates lists of states with the greatest racial inequality in incomes, homeownership and incarceration.
"The workers most impacted by the economic shut-down in March were workers in leisure and hospitality—workers who earned low wages, which make it nearly impossible to save enough money for a crisis like this,” Laura Dresser. Full article here.