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Economy

The economy/home building connection

by WRN Contributor on March 17, 2010

in Business, Economy

The construction industry hopes spurring the economy will end a swoon in new home starts. Jim Kubasta, an Oshkosh builder, says the souring of the economy over the last few years has had a direct impact on the number of homes his business puts up.

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County to sunset Mercury Marine incentive tax

by WRN Contributor 03/17/10 10:53 AM

The Fond du Lac County Board Tuesday night voted unanimously to repeal a half percent sales tax at the end of 2021. That’s when the tax essentially created to fund incentives for Mercury Marine is expected to have accomplished its purpose.

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State lost 113,000 jobs in 2009

by Bob Hague 03/11/10 6:31 PM

Unemployment was up in the first month of this years, and 2009 saw massive job losses. Unemployment in Wisconsin rose slightly in January to 8.7 percent, up two-tenths of a percent from December, according to state figures. The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development reported Thursday that the unemployment rate was 1.6 percentage points higher than [...]

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California cows aren’t so happy?

by WRN Contributor 03/5/10 10:45 AM

While Governor Jim Doyle accepted an award at Marian University in Fond du Lac, he used the event as a platform to talk about how Wisconsin will emerge from the downturn in the economy. Doyle says the state will prosper as there is  investment into reaching quality. “Quality is not about chasing low wage jobs it’s [...]

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WMC drums up signatures against energy bill

by Brian Moon 02/22/10 3:02 PM

The state’s largest business group says thousands have come out against the global warming bill. In an attempt to let state legislators know how strong the opposition was to the governor’s global warming bill, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce contacted their members with an online petition. Nearly a thousand signatures were collected in the first day, [...]

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