The Milwaukee workforce chief Willie Wade is faced with federal wire-fraud charges over allegations that he solicited a $30,000 bribe to push through plans for a downtown Milwaukee strip club while he was a city alderman in 2017.

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As the top official at Employ Milwaukee, Willie Wade has come to see that fighting the Milwaukee area's protracted labor shortage has as much to do with changing employers' attitudes as it does employees'.

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Willie Wade has been nominated to lead the workforce-development agency Employ Milwaukee.

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The president and CEO of Employ Milwaukee,the largest workforce board in the state, is stepping down for a new job.

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Milwaukee will be among a dozen Midwest communities joining forces to set up a first-of-its-kind regional workforce-development board.

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We’ve all heard it: Milwaukee is in the middle of a building boom. The construction industry needs workers. City residents, especially those living in poorer neighborhoods, need jobs. Seems like a simple problem to solve.

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Trying to bolster the supply of skilled tradespeople who can work on large construction projects in Milwaukee, a local workforce-development organization is seeking help from independent groups that can provide training and job placement.

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