“We’re no longer competing with other employers, we’re no longer competing with Illinois, we’re no longer competing with Iowa, we’re competing with the couch,” Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, said a local boss told him last week.
Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol on Tuesday introduced legislation to end the federal unemployment enhancers in the state. Those enhancers guarantee people an extra $300 a-week. Marklein says when you add that to the roughly $300 per week in Wisconsin benefits, you get more than $600 a week. That comes to over $16 an hour.
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