When it came to building and maintaining Affordable Housing long before covid19. Back in 2020, a rhode island family earning the states Median Income couldnt afford to buy a home at the median price anywhere in the state. It has only gotten worse since then. Across the country, home prices have risen 13. 4 from last year, with the National Median price now at 416,000. In my state, the Rhode Island Association of realtors reports that the median price of homes sold in june 2022, reached an alltime high of 430,000. Thats 11. 7 higher than a year earlier. A large reason that homeownership is out of reach for Many Americans is that the inventory levels are so low. In recent months, sales have dropped as Interest Rates have increased, but nowhere near a balanced market. In a healthy Housing Market, there is usually 6,000 homes for sale at any given time. Right now our country hags less than a threemonth supply of homes and rhode island has less than a twomonth supply. As potential home buye
Disaster worldwide. So of course i do not call for any interference in iraq and reject it, even if it is the United States but friends also should provide advice and support and should play a role in order to bring the parties closer together. They should support their friend when they are in trouble. I mean we need weapons. We need political stand. We need an economic support and the United States need iraq to be a stable country to be secure, to be able to produce energy, to be democratic. All these are american and iraqi interests alike. Following the withdrawal of the American Forces we felt that iraq was left on its own while it was not stable yet or balanced enough and was not yet able to completely move towards a transition to a strong state. This is why at this point the center of power is balanced and situation that is something we need today. The United States politically withdrew in the last few years and they started moving or shifting their attention away from iraq but now
A b process systems in stratford hired 50 more people over the past year and greenheck in schofield added 209 jobs since 2011. These are just the employers i visited in the past few days. Throughout the past year, we helped amazon. Com expand and create up to 1,250 jobs here in wisconsin. Emco chemical distributors moved up from illinois with about 187 jobs. Hanna cylinders announced the same thing and brought 105 jobs to our state. All three of these companies moved into kenosha county. [ applause ] these are just a small sample of the many good news stories showing wisconsin is going back to work. [ applause ] this is a stark contrast to the negative job outlook of the past. During my predecessors last term, wisconsin lost more than 133,000 jobs and lost more than 27,000 businesses. In 2009, the Unemployment Rate peaked at 9. 2 . During that same year, wisconsins ranking in chief executive magazines best and worst states for business was 43rd. In 2009, a survey of employers by the ch
Speaker vos, speaker pro tem august, president ellis, majority leader fitzgerald, minority leader larson, minority leader barca, members of the wisconsin supreme court, constitutional officers, tribal leaders, members of the cabinet, distinguished guests, members of the legislature, most importantly, fellow citizens of the great state of wisconsin, it is an honor to appear before you tonight. Before we get started, i would like to introduce the first lady of wisconsin, my wife, tonette. [ applause ] also in the gallery are our sons, matt and alex, and my family; my parents, llew and pat, my brother, david, my sisterinlaw, maria, and my nieces, isabella and eva. [ applause ] next to my wife is Major General don dunbar, our adjutant general. I want to thank him and the more than 10,000 members of the Wisconsin National guard. Thank you for being here. [ applause ] the state of our state is strong and improving every day. The economy is dramatically better and our finances are in great sh
Hardworking taxpayers all across the state through tax cuts and withholding changes. Once passed, the total tax relief provided since i took office will be roughly 2 billion. [applause] first, we will reduce property taxes by 406 million. [applause] this is more than four times larger than the Property Tax Relief we passed last year, and it is vitally important to protect working families, senior citizens, farmers, and small businesses. The typical homeowner will see an actual reduction of 101 dollars on their next property tax bill. [applause] second, we will reduce income taxes by 98. 6 million. To to ensure we dont leave anyone behind in our economic recovery, we will target this tax relief to the lowest income tax bracket. If youre a family of four making 40,000, your savings will be 58. No one will get a bigger savings than that. Third, earlier today, i directed revenue secretary Rick Chandler to adjust withholding for state income taxes by 322. 6 million, so you can keep more of