Economy

Wisconsin leaders are reacting to Trump tariffs with tempered optimism, concern or outright castigation.

Wisconsin’s economic ties with Germany are in focus for state politicians as new tariffs are put in place.

At Franks Diner in Kenosha, customers can go through nearly 1,500 eggs in a single weekend. Those eggs have become precious commodities now that bird flu has caused supply shortages and erratic prices all over the country.

“Demographics are a giant problem in this state,” said Mark O’Connell, executive director of the Wisconsin Counties Association. “The last time we had as few births as we have today was in 1943. We are not creating enough young people. We don’t attract them, we don’t grow them, we don’t keep them.”

UW-Madison professor J. Michael Collins explains what impact Social Security changes will have for recipients.

Canadian billboards calling out tariffs from the Trump administration have been spotted in Wisconsin. 

Gov. Tony Evers is trying to recruit displaced federal workers to Wisconsin following mass layoffs by the Trump Administration.

In 2016, Wisconsin’s neighboring state created the first in-prison trade school, and it has since been replicated across the nation. Gov. Tony Evers wants to turn Waupaun’s prison into a similar facility.

Dozens of people are calling on state utility regulators to block key pieces of a more than $2 billion plan to build new natural gas infrastructure in southeast Wisconsin.

Economic development officials in Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay say those efforts are important to addressing Wisconsin’s long-standing labor shortage and preventing future population declines.