Economy

A new homeless shelter in Monroe County recently opened its doors to families to provide food, clothing, life skills and community to those in need. The two-floor location temporarily houses one family on the top floor and provides a resources center on the first floor.

Employees of Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. said management increasingly makes decisions with little communication with workers.

A Milwaukee nonprofit expects tariffs to make new housing and renovations cost more, but it says homeownership is still attainable for Wisconsinites.

In 2023, state lawmakers created three workforce housing programs they said would boost house construction around Wisconsin. They didn’t work as well as legislators hoped.

The report examined what goods produced in Wisconsin sell to international markets, who buys those products and where in the state they come from.

The Democratic senator joined 18 other Democratic colleagues to press the Trump administration for answers on how its tariff policy will affect farmers.

The price for cocoa — the main ingredient in chocolate — has soared over the past three years. The surge is mainly due to small harvests in West Africa, where the bulk of the world’s cocoa is grown. Climate change has brought extreme heat to the area, which has limited the crop’s production.

“Thermometers don’t care who’s in office,” said Dan Vimont, a professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “By undercutting our ability to monitor and assess the current state of our world, we are disadvantaging ourselves economically, and we’re disadvantaging ourselves in our national security as well.” 

A brewery on the banks of the Milwaukee River hosted a roundtable discussion between tool distributors, farmers, roofers, craft brewers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Monday.

The shifting rollout of Trump’s tariffs has made it hard for manufacturers to plan for the future.