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Clean Energy Corps
A proposal by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Green for All, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the Center for American Progress Action Fund to fulfill the promises of a clean energy economy.
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Welcome to COWS
COWS is a national policy center and field laboratory for high-road economic development — a competitive market economy of shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and capable democratic government.
COWS' work is collaborative, experimental, and evidence-driven. Working with business, government, labor, and communities, we try out new ideas, test their effectiveness, and disseminate those with promise. We believe that the best way to predict the future is to start making it, particularly in our states and metro regions.
Some areas of COWS' program focus are:
- Economic and workforce development
- Sectoral strategies and career pathways
- Clean energy and energy efficiency
- Labor markets and job improvement
- Strategies for improving low-wage work
COWS is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, famous for the “Wisconsin Idea” that the University should help informed democratic experiment. Since its founding 18 years ago, COWS has often been called “the Wisconsin Idea in action.”
COWS is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, educational and charitable organization. Its budget comes from foundation and individual gifts and grants and technical assistance contracts.
Keeping Up with COWS
Our e-newsletter, COWS Notes, is an easy way to keep informed about what's going on at COWS.
The State of Working Wisconsin
The State of Working Wisconsin tells a compelling story about the status of jobs and workers in Wisconsin. Visit The State of Working Wisconsin web page for more information. Or, follow the links below to download the 2008 report and executive summary.
new at COWSGreening Wisconsin's Workforce: Training, Recovery, and the Clean Energy Economy tackles the question of how Wisconsin can best pursue the greener and more equitable promise of the clean energy economy. - read more - Clean Energy Corps will be a combined service, training, and job creation effort to combat global warming, grow local and regional economies and demonstrate the equity and employment promise of the clean energy economy. - read more - To listen to the audio teleconference for the media announcing the Clean Energy Corps, please click here. Focusing on Adult Basic Education: Bridges to Career Pathways in Southeastern Wisconsin examines a key population in need of skills and the training they need to move ahead. - read more - The Future of the Health Care Workforce in South Central/ Southwest Wisconsin provides a detailed picture of the region's health care workforce. - read more - The State of Working Wisconsin 2008 uses the best and latest data to document the downturn in workers' economic well being. - read more - featured newsAssembly sends equal pay measure to Doyle4/29/2009- Madison - Employers that violate equal pay laws would face punitive damages in court, under a bill passed Wednesday by the Assembly and sent to Gov. Jim Doyle. Doyle supports the b... UW graduates face bleak employment outlook, disappointed by job prospects4/27/2009- Recent UW-Madison graduate Marissa Arnold works as a public relations associate for a small firm in New York City, and like many other recent grads looking for work in a tough economy, she feels un... Most counties, cities see rise in unemployment4/23/2009- Unemployment rates in all of Wisconsin’s metropolitan areas and most counties increased between February and March, according to data released Wednesday by the Department of Workforce Development.<... |