The Milwaukee Brewers and Major League Baseball (MLB) are threatening to leave Milwaukee unless taxpayers ante up a huge public subsidy. Unlike the Milwaukee Bucks, the Brewers are demanding taxpayer support without the commitment of public or community benefits. The deals that have been floated are even less accountable than corporate subsidies such as the disastrous FoxConn deal, requiring little…
Contact your state legislators and urge them to co-sponsor the Wisconsin Climate & Jobs Package! RSVP for Citizen Action’s Lobby Week, Feb. 24th – March 4. THE ISSUE There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that we face runaway climate change unless we start a bold transition very soon and achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse emissions by 2030. While many Wisconsin…
Join the State “Joint Finance Committee” public budget hearings… 1. Janesville, Friday April 5th 2. Milwaukee, Thursday April 11th 3. River Falls, Monday April 15th 4. Green Bay, Wednesday April 24th Address and exact time TBA. How do use the invite link: Invite others on Facebook (in a very particular way!) If you have a Facebook profile, a very helpful tactic is…
Rural Wisconsin is in big trouble. Wisconsin farmers are beset with ongoing low prices and loss of vital foreign markets (Trump’s trade wars). The state has lost over 700 family dairy farms in an economy that isn’t working. And, the resultant economic fallout is threatening small towns. Community banks, family businesses and local health care providers will be hit hard,…
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14,000 jobs deficit for existing corporate tax credits and loans greater than the direct jobs claimed for the Foxconn deal 60% of WEDC supported corporations have failed to meet job creation goals. STATEWIDE: On a media call today Citizen Action of Wisconsin, State Rep. Amanda Stuck, and State Rep. Jonathan Brostoff released a new analysis of Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation…
Breaking Down the WEDC CEO’s Response to Citizen Action By Robert Kraig, Executive Director Last week Citizen Action of Wisconsin broke yet another scandal about fraudulent job creation claims by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the deeply troubled jobs agency created by Gov. Scott Walker early in his first term.
Communities in economic distress need job creation strategies at the scale of the problem Milwaukee: At a news event in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park Neighborhood today elected officials and community leaders spoke out about revelations that the jobs agency created by Governor Walker, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), misrepresented its impact on jobs in the area.
Economically distressed neighborhoods like Sherman Park abandoned by Wisconsin’s bankrupt economic strategy Milwaukee: A review of reporting by Governor Walker’s jobs agency by Citizen Action of Wisconsin could verify no job creation in or near Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood, the site of civil unrest over the weekend. As Citizen Action of Wisconsin documented in its statement Tuesday on the Sherman…
