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Expanding our labor force and changing hiring practices is important for changing this.
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Wisconsin will soon award $125 million in grants to expand broadband internet across the state.
It marks the largest grant distribution for broadband expansion since the state began awarding funds. wpr.org/node/1962671
You think valuations are out of whack? At least your company didn’t lose the GDP of Denmark.
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We ~really~ need to end performative obstructionism that comes at the cost of working class people and solutions to the many problems this country has.
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This is an important perspective. Most progress and technological innovation stems from addressing simple problems we knew how to solve a long time ago: public health, community support, education and opportunity.
We don't lack capital or capacity. What we lack is resolve.
"What if humans invented a technology to save the planet, and then just refused to use it?"
This isn't a riddle. It's reality. From COVID vaccines to nuclear power, Americans keep failing to implement or deploy world-saving inventions. I wrote about why:
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This is a big deal! I've been a huge supporter of this program since it started. Glad to see that Governor Evers is putting even more support towards Main Street.
This is a strangely pro-hydrocarbon position to “reduce” congestion.
Finance committee makes sure funds to reduce congestion can’t support bicycle and pedestrian travel
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Canceling student debt would mean more entrepreneurship and innovation on a generational scale. That in and of itself is a good argument for doing it.
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Brandon Colligan retweeted
Invest in areas that incentivize people to stay here:
1) raise shared rev. cap, focus public $ on areas that have wide impact on quality of life
2) invest in underfunded UW campuses. They're a 10x multiplier for local economies
3) network effect 1 & 2 to solve other problems
This is the closest that Wisconsin has to a "silver bullet" strategy to quickly remedy some of the labor and investment shortfalls the state is facing:
Invest in areas that incentivize people to stay here:
1) raise shared rev. cap, focus public $ on areas that have wide impact on quality of life
2) invest in underfunded UW campuses. They're a 10x multiplier for local economies
3) network effect 1 & 2 to solve other problems
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Pushing this out again because I'm a huge fan of programs like this. Money going directly into local businesses and Main Streets across the state ⬇️
#smallbusinesses are still able to receive $10K grants to help start or expand their operations as part of the state's Main Street Bounceback Program. Around $34M has gone to more than 3,400 businesses and nonprofits, @WPR reports. wpr.org/main-street-grant-pr… @GovEvers @WisconsinDOA
State regulators approve construction of Wisconsin's largest renewable energy plant in Dane County.
It's expected to generate a $140 million economic investment in the local economy and create 600 jobs.
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