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As an outbreak of COVID-19 is throttling the U.S. economy, Congress advance a giant stimulus package to give employers tax breaks, unemployed workers cash and pump trillions into efforts to withstand a shutdown of public life.

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The Senate is expected to approve a $2 trillion emergency stimulus bill to aid businesses, workers and the health-care system, which is struggling to manage the coronavirus pandemic.The Republican-led Senate will vote on the legislation — the nation’s largest economic rescue bill in history — on Wednesday afternoon.

U.S. home sales jumped in February to their highest level in 13 years, a trend that will almost certainly be reversed as people stop showing their property out of fear of infection in the coronavirus outbreak.

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The week’s fastest minute in construction.

The construction of new homes slowed again in February, but not as much as the previous month. Those declines follow a surge in December which had pushed home construction to the highest level in 13 years.

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Even as COVID-19 has led to school closings, event cancellations and other social-distancing measures, Wisconsin's construction industry has largely made no plans to stop work – at least fornow.

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The week’s fastest minute in construction.

Wisconsin's pace of new home construction and subdivision development dropped in 2019 from the previous year, a sign the state's housing supply is bottoming out amid strong demand last year.

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Increasing home ownership in Wisconsin, particularly among young people, is the goal of a new task force started by state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski.

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