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The Wisconsin Partnership Program has awarded $2.25 million to 12 Milwaukee projects working to provide support and resources to African American families and end infant mortality in the city.

The Brico Fund has awarded Hunger Task Force a $50,000 grant in response to both a shortage in food supply and a need for more funding.

The Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) has exceeded its goal of $2 million within Fran's Fund, a scholarship fund created in 2008 to grant music opportunities to underprivileged kids in southeastern Wisconsin.

AT&T Inc. said today that it invested nearly $300 million in its Milwaukee area wireless and wireline networks from 2010 through 2012, with a focus on expanding 4G LTE mobile Internet coverage and enhancing the overall performance of its networks.

Developers Tim Gokhman and Ann Shuk are proposing a 31-unit, market-rate apartment development on a vacant parcel of land at 2650 N. Humboldt in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood.

Milwaukee-based MGIC Investment Corp., the nation’s largest private mortgage insurer, today reported a fourth quarter net loss of $386.7 million, compared with a net loss of $135.3 million in the fourth quarter for fiscal 2011.

Menomonee Falls-based Kohl’s Corp. today reported that its net income for its fiscal fourth quarter was down 16.9 percent compared with its previous fourth quarter and its net income for the entire 2012 fiscal year was down 15.5 percent.

Over the next 10 years, the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) estimates that the federal sequestration in Washington, D.C. will cost hospitals in the state $1 billion in Medicare payments if the required 2 percent across-the-board cuts mandated by Congress takes effect as planned March 1.

The Milwaukee area manufacturing sector had a major increase in activity this month, according to the monthly report released by the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.

When one examines the data, you find that African Americans are at or near the top of almost all...