Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of fifty-eight. Sunrise is 5:26 AM and sunset 8:16 PM, for 14h 49m 40s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 96.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the nine hundred twenty-third day.
Whitewater’s Library Board is scheduled to meet at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1863, Union forces regroup at Vicksburg, Mississippi:
After the unsuccessful assault on Vicksburg the previous day, Union forces regrouped in front of the city. The 1st Wisconsin Light Artillery and the 8th, 11th, 18th and 23rd Wisconsin Infantry regiments joined the 14th and 17th Infantries to prepare for the next attack. While these arrangements were taking place at Vicksburg, the 4th Wisconsin Infantry fought in a skirmish in Cheneyville, Lousiana.
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David Haynes writes Wisconsin is losing people in their prime working years. Are more foreign workers the answer?:
Unemployment is low, jobs are being created and businesses are having trouble finding workers.
These are all signs that the economy in Wisconsin — and the nation — remains strong.
But behind those statistics is a problem that could put the brakes on growth: The number of people in their prime working years is declining.
Wisconsin has 150,000 fewer people between the ages of 25 and 54 than it did in 2007, which could create a host of problems for communities as fewer homes are built, the tax base shrinks and entrepreneurs say no thanks to starting a business.
“It’s a major concern when 50% of counties overall in Wisconsin are losing population outright but nearly every county is losing prime working age population,” said John Lettieri, author of a recent study by the Economic Innovation Group. EIG, a bipartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., recommends a new visa program to allow more skilled foreign workers into the United States.
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EIG recommends:
The program should target regions facing population declines and underserved by existing immigration programs. It should be voluntary. It should tie workers to a place, not a company. It should be in addition to current immigration quotas. It should provide a path to permanent residency. Additional federal and state funding should be provided to help visa holders find work and assimilate. The cap on green cards should be increased. Visa holders would have to find and maintain a job or start a business within a reasonable period of time.
(Free markets in capital, goods, and labor are a superior solution to quotas and planned outcomes, but even a partial lessening of labor restrictions is a good, next-best outcome.)
Brian Fung reports Rural America feels the sting of Trump’s China trade war:
Farmers have already been struggling to adapt to Chinese tariffs on US soybeans, corn and wheat.
“Farmers were [Trump’s] base,” John Wesley Boyd Jr., a Virginia-based soybean farmer, told CNN’s Brianna Keilar in a recent interview. “They helped elect this President … and now he’s turning his back on America’s farmers when we need him the most.”
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