How Can Wisconsin Attract Younger Workers?

As Wisconsin's workforce ages, the state needs to do more to attract younger, tech-savvy workers — otherwise, it could face a bleak economic future, according to Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council.

"Wisconsin skews a little bit older than most states, and as we have retirees who are baby boomers leaving the workforce, it becomes harder to replace those workers with younger workers," Still said.

In other words, keeping Wisconsin's workforce strong means keeping and attracting more millennials — a group that analysts predict will make up half of the U.S. workforce by the year 2020....

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