Economic Development

Bank Mutual in Milwaukee has hired several employees.

Helios Solar Works, a Milwaukee-based solar panel manufacturer that opened its doors in February, announced a new partnership with Arista Power Inc.

How does the lack of transparency impact the success of the strategy? As U.S. health plan premium increases continue to outpace inflation, employers have shifted costs to employees, offering them difficult choices such as:

The U.S. Senate recently dealt a psychological blow to the ethanol industry by voting to repeal a federal tax credit for ethanol producers. The credit provides a 45 cents-per-gallon tax incentive to qualifying ethanol blenders of pure ethanol blended with gasoline.

Health care costs constitute approximately 18 percent of the United States GDP, with the Congressional Budget Office projecting that such percentage will rise to 25 percent by 2025.

Robert Deglau started using the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE, or fourth-generation, long-term evolution network, as soon as it was introduced in the Milwaukee area last month.

Nearly every major automobile manufacturer in the world has either developed or is developing a plug-in electric vehicle. Some, including the Chevrolet Volt, have already been released to the Wisconsin market, and most of the others will be released in various markets across the country before 2013.

The residential real estate market has been in a funk since the housing market collapsed in 2007, a major contributor to the Great Recession. The number of homes sold, and the value of those homes, has decreased significantly in recent years. Many homes went into foreclosure during and after the recession, which has contributed to declining home values.

Commercial real estate development ground to a halt during the Great Recession as financing became extraordinarily difficult for developers to find and demand for new projects slumped.

The U.S. stock market finished the second quarter with a flourish, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallying on the final four days of June.