Weekend Reading

Wisconsin School District Rejects Universal Free Lunches So Kids Won’t Get ‘Spoiled’

Millions Lose Jobless Benefits Today. It Doesn't Mean They'll Be Rushing Back To Work

Census data shows split between growing downtown area and declining lower-income neighborhoods in Milwaukee

Richest 1% Of Americans Underpay Taxes By $163 Billion, Says Treasury

Kellyanne Conway didn't belong on the Air Force Academy board

The Billions Being Wasted in the Economic Development Subsidy Wars

Free Parking Is Killing Cities

Weekend Reading

Why Financial Advisers Hate Elizabeth Warren
Ask Colorado Whether Infrastructure Spending Works
Excess Management Is Costing The U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year
Taking Stock: Income Inequality and the Stock Market
The States With The Biggest Obamacare Woes Spent Years Undermining The Law
Why Companies Are Moving Back Downtown
Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped By Segregation
One Big Reason For Stagnant Wages and Rising Inequality
Workplace Wellness Programs Are A Sham

Wisconsin Reading

Scott Walker Destroyed His State: Wisconsin's Economic Cautionary Tale
Suburban Firms Moving Downtown To Attract And Keep Millennials
In College Column, Bradley Likened Abortion To Holocaust, Slavery
Who's Best On Budget And Taxes?
Wisconsin Uses Affordable Care Act But Rejects Funding For It
Milwaukee Faces Daunting Costs With Lead Water Pipes
Milwaukee County To Consider $184.3 Million, 10-Story Downtown Courthouse
Wisconsin's Pace Of Job Growth Continues To Trail Behind The National Average

15 U.S. Cities' Emerging Downtowns: Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wis.

The Milwaukee community first turned its sights to downtown in 1988 with the RiverWalk initiative. In the decades since, the city passed zoning changes to encourage developers to erect more housing in the area. In 2002, with the help of $45 million in government funding, the city dismantled the mile-long elevated Park East freeway and replaced it with a landscaped boulevard. According to the Congress for New Urbanism, per-acre land values within the freeway footprint had surged 180% by 2006 from 2001. Since 2000, the downtown population has increased by nearly 26% compared to the greater city of Milwaukee, which has experienced an overall decline. Jobs in the area increased by nearly 4% from 2000 to 2010, and the median income of downtown households has climbed by 38% since 2000, compared to 2% for the city overall, according to Milwaukee Downtown organization.

Weekend Reading

Challenges In Housing & Mortgage Markets
Climate Change Made Sandy Worse. Period.
Downtown's Are Booming
401Ks Creating Generation Of Workers Unable To Retire
Marijuana Helps Prevent Lung Cancer
Menard's Anti-Obama Content
Programs Outside Health Care To Decline As Share Of Economy
Scott Walker Rejects Health Care Reform
10 Things 401K Plans Won't Tell You