Milwaukee Rising » legislature http://milwaukeerising.net/wordpress From Milwaukee's West Side Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:47:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Roads jobs — more important than most, state says http://milwaukeerising.net/wordpress/2009/02/12/roads-jobs-more-important-than-most-state-says/ http://milwaukeerising.net/wordpress/2009/02/12/roads-jobs-more-important-than-most-state-says/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:25:17 +0000 Gretchen Schuldt http://milwaukeerising.net/wordpress/?p=602 Continue reading →]]> The state is going to slash and burn jobs over the next two years, under legislation to be considered next week. State government would be cut by $125 million over the next two years, but highway workers would be exempted from threats to their jobs, as would those with public safety gigs, such as cops or firefighters.

Oh, yeah. The first $300 million in federal stimulus money would go to highway projects.

So still no way to connect jobs to workers without cars, but plenty of cops to roust and bust them if they become homeless.

Or are they all supposed to find jobs as road builders?

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