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If you could offer a benefit to your employees that costs you nothing yet potentially saves them thousands of dollars, would you do it?

Paying to play is no novel idea for businesses that want to reach potential and existing customers. From online banner ads to radio spots, marketers know that to open channels of communication, they need to ante up. Until recently, there has been one widespread exception to that rule – social media promotion and, specifically, Facebook.

After a moderate expansion in 2013, the pace of Wisconsin's economic recovery is picking up in 2014, according to a special report by BMO Economics on the economic output from the Great Lakes region.

As early-stage companies continue losing bright minds to professional services industries – particularly finance, consulting and law – Andrew Yang is determined to reel those minds in.

A new study shows Wisconsin is losing out on nearly $29 million each year in tax revenue because of an offshore tax loophole. The so-called “water's edge” loophole enables American companies to park their money in foreign countries, according to the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group.

A recent Marquette University Law School poll shows 52 percent of respondents feel Obamacare should be kept and improved. Only 18 percent said the Affordable Care Act should be repealed and not replaced.

The United Performing Arts Fund received the largest sustaining gift in its history last month with a $1 million gift from the Bucyrus Foundation.