These Aren't Your Grandpa's Environmentalists
August 12, 2014
Eric Bott Director of Environmental & Energy Policy Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce In 1909, the man who coined the term “Conservation Ethic,” U.S. Forest
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Making Wisconsin Irresistible to Business
July 15, 2014
By Kurt R. Bauer WMC President/CEO Wisconsin’s working-age population will grow by just 0.4 percent by 2030, according to the UW-Madison Applied Population Lab. During
How to Accelerate the Economic Recovery
December 2, 2013
WMC News Column By Kurt R. Bauer, WMC President/CEO It looks like the U.S. economy grew somewhere between 2.5 and 3 percent in 2013. That
Editorial: Status Quo Policies Will Yield Status Quo Economy
December 2, 2012
By Kurt R. Bauer President/CEO, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce While I don’t know what the economy will be like in 2013, I strongly suspect most businesses
Legislature Must Seize Opportunity to Create Mining Jobs
November 29, 2012
News Column By Scott Manley, WMC Director of Energy and Environmental Policy An opportunity to create thousands of family-supporting jobs was lost earlier this year
Changing the Dialogue: Selling Manufacturing One Conversation at a Time
October 1, 2012
By Jim Morgan, WMC Foundation President Why do parents speak with great pride about their 4-year university-bound children, but when discussing their technical college student
WMC Column: Solving the Workforce Paradox
May 8, 2012
News Column By James R. Morgan, WMC Foundation President Manufacturing, and manufacturing careers, have been getting quite a bit of coverage lately. Employers have made
Seidel Misleads on Equal Pay
April 24, 2012
Guest column by Rebecca Hogan, Director of Health and Human Resources Policy Rebecca Hogan, Director of Health and Human Resources Policy Political division certainly
Insight: How Much Do Green Jobs Cost?
November 30, 2011
Politicians at both the state and federal levels of governments are promising heavy government subsidies to create so-called “green jobs” to help boost our economy.
Insight: State Global Warming Bill: A Case Study in “Madison Math”
November 30, 2011
Madison Math: The practice of fudging numbers and obscuring facts to fit a political agenda. It’s by no means a novel concept among Madison politicians