Retirement

Neugen says hundreds of employees saw an 18 percent drop to their investments in a MassMutual retirement fund.

Gambling addiction can be easy to hide from others, according to gambling counselor Patricia Jirovetz. Jirovetz also said that what counts as gambling isn’t always clear. “(Some) video games are set up with the same reward structure as a slot machine,” Jirovetz said in a recent interview for “The Morning Show” on WPR. “It’s unpredictable.…

Northern Wisconsin businesses face many of the same challenges as the rest of the state, according to a pair of regional economic development leaders. Sheldon Johnson and Tommy Wartman lead two partner organizations of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, a state agency tasked with driving business growth. Johnson oversees Spooner-based Visions Northwest in the state’s…

A bill to cut state income taxes by over $2.9 billion and exempt retirement income from state taxation passed out of the Wisconsin state Assembly and received a public hearing in the state Senate last month. The Republican tax cut proposal passed on a 64-35 party line vote in the Assembly, sending it to the…

In a lower Manhattan off-Broadway theater, tucked away from the traffic and bright lights, an old farm house nestled on 40 acres of remnant prairie introduces theatergoers to a Wisconsin woman making zucchini bread, and Rebecca Gilman’s play “Swing State” begins. The play, set “somewhere in the Driftless area of Wisconsin” in the late summer…

Ads for investing in a “gold IRA” are a mainstay on conservative media, including Fox News. But according to a recent report by The Washington Post, the companies behind those ads are facing increasing scrutiny in government agencies and courtrooms. State and federal regulators have accused the companies of fraud and some investors are claiming…

A pair of Republican state lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to exempt retirement income from state taxes this week. State Rep. David Steffen, R-Howard, and state Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara, R-Appleton, announced they were circulating the legislation for co-sponsorship on Monday. They say it’s already received bipartisan support. The bill would exempt the first $100,000 of…

Wisconsin has led the Midwest in rural migration since 1980, bolstered in recent years by people moving to areas known for tourism as they near or enter retirement age. That’s according to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum, which found the pace of that growth has slowed in recent decades. The state’s rural…

When Sarah Scanlan met a woman she messaged on Facebook in her Appleton garden, she expected to give away camomile tea leaves. But then the two connected over composting, too, and Scanlan walked away with a gardening friend and a deeper sense of community. The two women met because of Appleton’s Buy Nothing Facebook group,…

Wisconsin’s milk production in the last couple of years has been around 30 billion pounds per year — an all-time high. Yet, the state has lost about 40,000 dairy farms over the last four decades. And that number continues to rise by about one farm per day, said Daniel Smith, president and CEO of Cooperative…