{"id":2870,"date":"2023-05-16T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2023-05-16T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:07:13","slug":"wmc-pushes-for-tax-education-and-workforce-reform-in-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"WMC Pushes for Tax, Education and Workforce Reform in State Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/wmc-pushes-for-tax-education-and-workforce-reform-in-state-budget\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/wmc-pushes-for-tax-education-and-workforce-reform-in-state-budget\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WMC\u2019s Senior Director of Workforce, Education &amp; Employment Policy Rachel Ver Velde joined Tracy Johnson on the Steve Scaffidi show to discuss the Governor\u2019s budget and WMC\u2019s policy goals.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel thanked the legislature for protecting the Manufacturing and Agriculture Tax Credit (MAC) from Governor Evers\u2019 proposal to limit the credit. \u201cManufacturing is the backbone of our state\u2019s economy,\u201d Rachel shared. \u201cWe need to keep it [the MAC] in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While tax reform remains the legislature\u2019s primary objective with this budget, they have also prioritized expanding school choice programs and workforce development.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AGkg5jrbPhU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to listen to the interview.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/wmc-pushes-for-tax-education-and-workforce-reform-in-state-budget\/\">WMC Pushes for Tax, Education and Workforce Reform in State Budget<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/wmc-pushes-for-tax-education-and-workforce-reform-in-state-budget\/ WMC\u2019s Senior Director of Workforce, Education &amp; Employment Policy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}