M.D. Kittle: Madison mayor siphons unemployment to fix budget mess

In a letter last month, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway instructed city employees to work fewer hours and sign up for Unemployment Insurance to help fill big-spending Madison’s budget hole. She touts it as a win-win situation for the city’s finances and the government employees, without noting the losers: federal taxpayers and employers who cover the cost of UI benefits.

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M.D. Kittle: Madison mayor siphons unemployment to fix budget mess

In a letter last month, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway instructed city employees to work fewer hours and sign up for Unemployment Insurance to help fill big-spending Madison’s budget hole. She touts it as a win-win situation for the city’s finances and the government employees, without noting the losers: federal taxpayers and employers who cover the cost of UI benefits.

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Wisconsin AFL-CIO: As Wisconsin legislature considers Governor Evers’ budget, new study finds right-to-work states worse off on multitude of economic metrics

(MILWAUKEE, WI, February 19, 2021) – As Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee and Legislature debate Governor Evers’ Budget Proposal, which includes the repeal of the state’s so-called right-to-work law, a new report from the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the University of Illinois finds that states with right-to-work laws have slower

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