The forum is free and open to the public. Keynoting the evening will be Terry Ludeman, a labor statistics analyst with the Department of Workforce Development in Madison. Ludeman will present data on demographic trends in the St. Croix Valley, Wisconsin and the Midwest. He said that most people will find it to be startling.
Many people are aware that our work force is getting older.
But I don't think that those in business, industry, government or education realize what a radical and dramatic change is under way. It is absolutely mind-boggling. A lot of people don't realize the depth of the change. Through the Upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas are facing similar situations. Locally, Ludeman noted that Pierce, Polk and St. Croix counties are experiencing the same kind of rapid and significant population change that has occurred in the suburban counties of Waukesha, Racine and Ouzakee counties that ring Milwaukee.