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GPS Education Partners has rounded out its newly formed leadership team with the hiring of Matthias Bollmus as director of finance and operations. President Stephanie Borowski formerly served as chief financial officer.

The U.S. economy added 280,000 jobs in May - the strongest month of the year so far — as wages continued to rise and the labor participation rate ticked upward.

Milwaukee startup OnKol plans to move from Startup Milwaukee’s 96square co-working space to another collaborative community, Ward4 Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Small Business Week, which began Monday and runs through Friday, offers professional networking, presents business workshops and seminars, and honors Milwaukee’s small businesses.

The Medical College of Wisconsin announced on Monday that it plans to open a school of pharmacy in existing space at the Wauwatosa campus in the summer of 2017 or 2018.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced on Tuesday a new partnership to make an associate’s or bachelor’s degree available at no cost for any of its eligible full-time and part-time associates in Wisconsin through College for America at Southern New Hampshire University. College for America partners with employers to offer a competency-based, online curriculum that is engineered to help associates fit a fully-accredited college degree in the busy lives of working adults.

Should the Federal Reserve Bank raise its benchmark short-term interest rate this year?

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