Each year WCCF updates a one-page brochure that helps educate people about the major refundable tax credits for low-income families -- the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC), the state Homestead Tax Credit, and the federal child tax credit. Please help us get the flyer into the hands of low-income families who could...
Some years back Michael Males wrote a book called “The Scapegoat Generation” in which he debunked the many myths about youth, including the myth of the coming generation of super-predators. Males continues to be one of the best researchers in using actual data to talk about trends in youth behavior – and you can view a brief video and...
Great News For BadgerCare, Funds Should Enable the State To Avoid Most of the Proposed Cuts In a letter to the Joint Finance Committee, the Department of Health Services (DHS) revised estimates of a $554 million shortfall in this biennium’s Medicaid budget, down to $231.8 million all funds. This is great news for Wisconsin, especially...
December 31st, 2011, was a date we heard a lot about with regard to the Wisconsin Medicaid budget; however, it has come and gone without too much commotion. Let’s backtrack and discuss the significance of this arbitrary deadline, and look ahead to what may happen now that it has passed. To Recap: In the biennial budget, the...
For more than 130 years, the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families has been working to ensure that all children grow up in a just and nurturing family and community. No matter the year, the political climate or the state of our economy, WCCF has always put children first. While we may not directly feed, provide child care or house...
The Office of Justice Assistance just released an evaluation on the costs and benefits of implementing Treatment Alternatives and Diversion(TAD) programs in seven Wisconsin counties. The evaluation is consistent with what we have seen well-researched in the juvenile system by showing that focused, strategic, and smart community-based...
Wisconsin’s success in improving access to health care for children through the BadgerCare program has qualified the state for a federal bonus of $24.5 million for 2011, federal officials announced this afternoon.“Today’s announcement is fantastic news for families in BadgerCare because these funds could be used to avoid making proposed...
There have been scads of interesting and important stories over the past year relating to the Wisconsin budget and the effects of budget changes on the state’s families. The Wisconsin Budget Project has blogged about many of those stories, and in today’s blog post it provides a list of and links to the project’s 10 most popular posts in...
This afternoon the Walker Administration announced its plans for lapsing $123 million to the General Fund. The biennial budget requires the Department of Administration (DOA) to allocate $174 million of lapses, and today’s announcement covers just the first fiscal year – meaning that there will be at least $51 million in additional...
This week Citizen Action of Wisconsin released its 6th annual Health Insurance Cost Ranking. The report provides local information on cost, quality, and the rate of health insurance inflation. The study highlights a large disparity in health insurance costs between the different regions of the state, with some paying over $2,000 more...
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