Author: Correspondent

A Black-owned family trucking company that got its big break during to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow by focusing on creating generational wealth for Milwaukee’s Black community. A&A Services and Transportation is a subcontractor working primarily for FedEx. The company has three separate routes running three Sprinter vans on a package pickup and delivery route in the West Allis area and two “line haul” routes with two semitrucks each carrying a double-trailer running from Illinois to the Milwaukee area. “We see nothing but opportunity,” said Pastor W. Aaron Robbins Sr., who founded the company with his wife, Laci...

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have identified a linkage between contemporary redlining, mortgage lending bias based on property location, and mortality after breast cancer diagnosis among older women in the United States. The results, published recently in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, show women residing in more heavily redlined areas experience worse survival rates, after controlling for disease and demographic factors. This is the first nation-wide study to examine the relationship between contemporary mortgage lending bias and cancer survival. Researchers found redlining differed by race and ethnicity with 79% of non-Hispanic Black and 57% of Hispanic...

Governor Tony Evers celebrated Wisconsin’s continued economic recovery and bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic on June 8 as the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau released projections underscoring the state’s economic success. The revenue projections announced were more than $4.4 billion higher than had previously been estimated in January. The news comes as Wisconsin continues to lead the country in getting available shots in arms and the state has continued seeing economic rebounds, including the state’s April unemployment rate of 3.9 percent, which has nearly returned to March 2020 pre-pandemic levels and remains well below the national rate in April...