By Casey Nelson
May 17, 2021 | 12:55 PM
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Spring and summer are often times where people are looking to get into the workforce, but this year is still looking a little different than usual.
“I think it’s a little early to tell for sure if this year is going to be statistically or significantly different compared to past years,” said Bay Area Workforce Development Board Executive Director Matt Valiquette. “We expect to see an increase this time of the year of folks that are either completing their schooling at the post secondary level, or for whatever other reasons, are are looking to re-enter the workforce.”
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Wisconsinâs return to near pre-pandemic unemployment levels has brought with it the reemergence of one of the biggest challenges facing some of the stateâs largest industries â a workforce shortage.
The need for workers in multiple sectors of the economy has Republicans and the stateâs largest business lobby calling on the state to end its participation in enhanced federal pandemic unemployment benefits, which they say creates a disincentive to work.
Liberals point to long-term structural changes as an opportunity to provide higher wages, better benefits, more skills-based training and adequate child care offerings â a need that was drastically amplified with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic â as necessary to get more Wisconsinites into the workforce.
Ledell Lee, a Black man executed in 2017 for the murder of a white woman, is part of a larger issue that we rarely discuss. Too many Black men face false accusations without true redemption or justice. With all the protests for police and judicial reform, the rising issue of false accusations is buried in our conversations and focus on addressing blue bravado and the immunities afforded to prosecutors, judges, and clerks of the court. We must provide protection under the law for a group of victims that are truly voiceless, the falsely accused.
Black men represent less than seven percent of the U.S. population but account for
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