{"id":3461,"date":"2023-06-08T19:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2023-06-14T20:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:19:27","slug":"employers-trying-to-adapt-combat-wisconsins-shrinking-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"Employers trying to adapt, combat Wisconsin\u2019s shrinking workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/employers-trying-to-adapt-combat-wisconsins-shrinking-workforce\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/employers-trying-to-adapt-combat-wisconsins-shrinking-workforce\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WMC Foundation\u2019s new report, Wisconsin\u2019s Demographic Dilemma, finds that Wisconsin\u2019s aging population is contributing to the workforce shortage. The state\u2019s population is also dropping, exacerbating the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>WMC\u2019s Senior Director of Workforce, Education &amp; Employment Policy Rachel Ver Velde discussed findings of the report, and what Wisconsin can do to solve some of the issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think one other really important policy goal should be having a talent attraction campaign to make sure that we\u2019re talking to people from other states and encouraging them to move to Wisconsin,\u201d Ver Velde shared.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waow.com\/news\/wisconsin-workforce-shrinking\/article_97e1a824-0579-11ee-b8b3-87c69bb32d95.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch the full interview.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/employers-trying-to-adapt-combat-wisconsins-shrinking-workforce\/\">Employers trying to adapt, combat Wisconsin\u2019s shrinking workforce<\/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\/employers-trying-to-adapt-combat-wisconsins-shrinking-workforce\/ WMC Foundation\u2019s new report, Wisconsin\u2019s Demographic Dilemma, finds that&#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-3461","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\/3461","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=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3462"}],"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=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}