Jobs With a Future | Milwaukee Jobs Initiative | Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership |
Sustaining Wisconsin Education Campaign

Field Projects

As a think-and-do tank, COWS emphasizes applied research through “real-world” experiments in alternative policy. One example is in the area of training and modernization. COWS is the national leader in promoting “high-road” regional partnerships that bring employers, unions, public-sector institutions, and community groups together around the goal of industrial upgrading. While the partnerships vary in structure, governance, and funding, they share the common objective of building an economy based on skills, innovation, equal opportunity, and community accountability, rather than on "low-road" practices that lower living and working standards and weaken communities.

Here in Wisconsin, COWS-initiated partnerships are found in the state’s two major population centers. Jobs With a Future Partnerships covers the south-central part of the state, which includes Madison, the state capital. The Milwaukee Jobs Initiative and the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership are in the southeastern region of the state, based in Wisconsin’s largest city.