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New Program Helps Individuals Navigate Complicated Unemployment Insurance System

February 25, 2023

By Edgar Mendez This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Department of Workforce Development, Edgar Mendez, UMOS, Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Insurance Navigator Program

What You Can Do if You’ve Lost Pandemic Unemployment Benefits

September 17, 2021

By Matt Martinez Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Job Centers, Matt Martinez, Pandemic Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, Wisconsin Works

Families Face Peril as Unemployment Benefit Expires

August 15, 2020

By Edgar Mendez Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Edgar Mendez, Federal Unemployment Supplement, Unemployment Insurance

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MILWAUKEE COURIER

For Us the Working: Why Unemployment Insurance is the New Frontier of Welfare Reform

August 1, 2020

By LaKeshia N. Myers I don’t particularly care for the term “welfare.” While promoting the general welfare of citizens is one of three guiding principles of the United States according to the … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: LaKeshia N. Myers, Unemployment Insurance

Drug Testing

March 14, 2015

By Graham Kilmer On Tuesday March, 3 members of the State Joint Finance committee met during a hearing with Secretary Reggie Newson of the Department of Workforce Development. One of the issues … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Drug Testing, Graham Kilmer, Scott Walker, Unemployment Insurance

Legislature approves Coggs’ progressive agenda

May 1, 2010

“Accomplished with the support of people across the state,” Coggs says Sen. Spencer Coggs’ Progressive legislative agenda of educating children, protecting toddlers in day care centers, bolstering … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Anti-Union Busting, Bullying in Schools, Day Care Van Alarms, Housing Trust Fund, Jeanetta Simpson-Robinson, Juneteenth Day, Mandatory 5 Year Old Kindergarten, Minority Cancer Awareness Day, Public Defenders, Race-Based Logos, Spencer Coggs, Transitional Jobs, Unemployment Insurance, Victims Fair Housing, Worker Freedom Act, Workers Compensation

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