Although Wisconsin’s unemployment system is struggling to keep up with a wave of filings amid the state’s COVID-19 outbreak, employers most likely don’t need to worry about higher payroll taxes until 2022 thanks to the state’s high reserves and previous precautionary actions.

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Entering the COVID-19 outbreak, Mount Pleasant enjoyed enough reserves and revenue to weather the pandemic, even with the $200 million in debt the village had amassed to help with the construction of Foxconn Technology Group's massive campus, according to a report released this week.

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Wisconsin municipalities’ biggest expense in the past three decades has been their police departments, according to a report released Monday.

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A newly released report is once again calling attention to the wide pay disparities found between men and women in construction, architecture and other fields in the Milwaukee area – evidence that many women say shows more work is still ...

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Wisconsin's finances are stronger than before the onset of the last recession in 2007, but are about average when compared with those of other states, according to a new report released Monday by the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum.

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Property-tax rates have decreased in Wisconsin for a fifth straight year in 2019 following strong growth in property values coupled with modest increases in local property-tax levies.

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In their 2020 proposed budget, Madison officials are a calling for spending less on capital projects than they did last year. A number of big jobs are being put off indefinitely.

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Because of unexpected savings and one-time windfalls, Milwaukee County’s 2020 budget will avoid the big cuts that some officials had predicted for next year.

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Although property values rose last year at the fastest rate seen since the Great Recession, the rate of new construction was far slower — a fact that the Wisconsin Policy Forum argues raises questions about state rules that tie tax increases to new building projects.

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Milwaukee County officials on Tuesday will consider using a public-private partnership to overhaul the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, a plan that would preserve the park's well-known domes and add new features such as a food-truck park and a hub for research.

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