Frederica Freyberg is the anchor of PBS Wisconsin's Here & Now, a live weekly program that covers news concerning state issues and feature segments about matters in local communities throughout the state.
More jobs does not always mean greater opportunities for people of different genders, races, or geographic areas. And a broad economic recovery does not necessarily offer a steady outlook for job-seekers.
"The State of Working Wisconsin 2016" found that while employment in Wisconsin has returned to pre-Great Recession levels, many long-term inequalities still exist. Center on Wisconsin Strategy associate director Laura Dresser discusses the report's findings.
Many insurers in the federal health insurance marketplace in Wisconsin are seeking rate increases in premiums, including some in the double digits. ABC for Health executive director Bobby Peterson discusses the factors at play.
Wisconsin's ACT standardized test scores dipped in 2016, which marked the first year all graduating seniors were required to take the college aptitude exam. Wisconsin state schools Superintendent Tony Evers discusses benchmarks in student tests.
The year 2070 may sound like an impossibly distant date from the vantage point of 2016, but it's as near into the future as John Glenn's first orbit of the Earth is in the past.
In the time since a Milwaukee Police Department officer shot and killed 23-year-old Sylville Smith on Saturday, August 13, 2016, Wisconsin has played host to a fractured yet familiar story.
Violent protests erupted in the Sherman Park neighborhood of Milwaukee after an armed black man was shot and killed by police. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett discusses the situation in the city.
Minister Caliph Muab'El, executive director of Breaking Barriers Mentoring, led over 100 Sherman Park teens to go door-to-door in Milwaukee earlier to peer advise on the subjects of peace and civil unrest. He discusses the unrest in the city and the conditions that contributed to it.
