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Capitol Newsletter: Population trends raise challenges
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An aging workforce and growing cadre of retired workers seem destined to provide difficult challenges for Wisconsin in the future. That's the conclusion of a report entitled "The Impending Storm" prepared by the non-partisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WTA). It notes that school enrollments have been generally flat since the late 1990s, saying that "suggests that the size of our labor force is in the early stages of stagnation.'