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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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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A construction trade group and a chamber of commerce are calling for the elimination of disadvantage requirements in Milwaukee's Small Business Enterprise program. But the city's Office of Small Business Development and several aldermen said that the requirements are needed to ensure contractors who live within the city can get work.

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The ground beneath some Milwaukee schools could be about to go on the market.

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A company's proposal to build a new assisted-living home would provide housing for seniors and the disabled but alter the character of a residential Milwaukee neighborhood.

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Milwaukee’s economic development director said he is so confident a manufacturing building proposed for Century City will attract tenants, he already is planning for a second one.

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Milwaukee could spend up to $175,000 to train 30 landscapers to spruce up city-owned foreclosed homes.

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Concerns that Milwaukee could become a “substitute bank for high-risk loans” at least temporarily derailed a proposal to use city money to support a home repair venture.

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