A retired Ripon College economics professor says after many weeks of lockdown questions remain how extending Wisconsin’s Safer at Home order will impact the state’s economy in the long term. Economist Paul Schoofs says danger is the longer the shutdown continues, the longer the economic scars and the slower the recovery. “Two months is getting to be on the danger level there of really leading to a lot of businesses maybe going bankrupt and not able to return once we’re past the worst part of the health scare,” Schoofs told WFDL news. “A big factor will be how quickly this extra funding through the federal government gets out.” Schoofs says the other question is how many people would actually go out to restaurants if they were reopened tomorrow?
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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