Madison Can Help Ailing Wisconsin Paper Industry

Wausau Paper’s mill in Brokaw (WI) has been a major local employer for more than a century. A company memo obtained by the Wausau Daily Herald revealed that the Brokaw mill has been losing money for almost a decade, even as the company has taken steps to cut costs there.

To be sure, part of what is happening is that the market for paper is changing. But there also are concrete changes to public policy that could help to ease the way for Wisconsin’s paper mills, and leaders at all levels of government should be working hard at putting them