Wisconsin municipalities are due to receive about $20 billion in federal aid in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a sum that's more than twice the amount of federal aid cities and counties got following the 2008 Great Recession.

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The coronavirus has taken its toll on Wisconsin's transportation fund, the state's primary source for road and infrastructure projects, according to a new report released Friday.

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Wisconsin's sate and local tax burden dropped below the national average and taxes as a share of income in 2020 reached its lowest level in at least half a century, a report released Tuesday from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum showed.

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Auto fatalities are up in Wisconsin despite there being fewer people on the road due to the coronavirus pandemic, a report released Tuesday by the Wisconsin Policy Forum found.

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Despite a pandemic, an economic downturn and a polarizing presidential election, a report released on Tuesday has found that Wisconsin voters approved school referendums at the second-highest rate in state history since 1993 on Nov. 3.

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Heading into the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin property tax levies showed their largest increases in a decade in December.

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A recent report finds the city of Milwaukee's array of housing programs are less efficient and receive less private money than programs in similar cities around the Midwest.

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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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