(text of email distributed yesterday)
To Those Interested in the Forestry Industry in Wisconsin,
At their meeting last week the Council on Forestry (Council) identified four priority goals (see background below) as a result of input received from Forestry Economic Summit participants. The Council will work with interested parties to develop an action plan for achieving those goals. If you did not volunteer to work on one of the following goals, but are interested in doing so, please feel fr
In this morning’s Wisconsin State Journal, the regular UWEX feature, “Econ Quiz”, reported on 2013 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City on the “middle-skilled job sector.” Between 1983 and 2012, the number of jobs classified as middle-skilled nationwide dropped from 59% to 45%.
Middle-skilled jobs, according to the article, “generally requires more than a high school degree, specific skills certification, significant on-the-job training or conside