The Center on Wisconsin Strategy has been publishing its State of Working Wisconsin report since 1996. The 2022 report, released ahead of Labor Day, derives its data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau and other federal sources.
“If I was going to pick a single year to think of the best possible picture for workers in this century, I would pick this year,” said Laura Dresser, a professor in the UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work and a co-author of the report. “I see more consistent evidence of a shift.” Dresser is also an associate director for the COWS.