Today on TAP: Oshkosh dodges its union autoworkers
Wisconsin
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Foxconn Finally Admits Con
But Wisconsin remains on the hook for as much as $1.34 billion for the doomed project. The folly of throwing money at corporations as a jobs strategy has never been clearer.
Posted inBooks
How Labor Saved a Paper Mill From the Scrap Heap
Wisconsin county official and U.S. Senate candidate Tom Nelson writes a fascinating book about revitalizing manufacturing in a small town.
Posted inPolitics
Are Democrats Unlearning the Lesson of 2020’s Senate Races?
Chuck Schumer could continue the successful populism that won Georgia, or fall back on a failed strategy with middle-of-the-road self-funders.
Posted inPolitics
Reporting in an Extraordinary Election Year
Prospect Writing Fellow Brittany Gibson’s Best of 2020
Posted inPolitics
Labor’s Electoral Strategy: It’s Not Enough to Reach Our Members
Two extensive union programs—one long established, one new—are focusing on swaying working-class voters who, like most Americans, don’t belong to unions.
Posted inWorking in America
What Happened to Milwaukee’s Black Middle Class?
Democrats will need the support of a Wisconsin city battered by deindustrialization and deunionization.
Posted inTAP
How Trump’s Gambits Succeed by Failing
Today on TAP: The violence story kept real issues out of the headlines.
Posted inTAP
Trump: Campaigning, or Crossing State Lines to Incite a Riot?
Today on TAP: The president goes to Kenosha
Posted inPolitics
A Frustrating, Dangerous Election Day in Wisconsin
Countless voters are disenfranchised as voting is forced to be held in the middle of a pandemic.