Since the recession, Wisconsin household income has plummeted, according to new figures released yesterday by the Census Bureau. Between 2006 and 2010, median household income in Wisconsin dropped by about $3,600, or 7 percent.In yesterday’s blog post, we discussed how child poverty rose faster in Wisconsin than it did nationally. The...
The deficit reduction plan unveiled by President Obama on Monday would cut health care spending by an estimated $320 billion over the next 10 years. About $248 billion of that total would come from Medicare, and $72 billion would be cut from Medicaid. This blog post summarizes the major aspects of those spending cuts and attempts to put...
The number of children living in poverty rose dramatically in Wisconsin in 2010, according to new figures released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2010, a quarter of a million Wisconsin children lived below the poverty line, about 36,000 more than in 2009. Unfortunately, the increase in child poverty in Wisconsin is nothing new....
Last month the Department of Children and Families (DCF) made an abrupt and significant policy change to the Wisconsin Shares payments to licensed family child care providers. But in doing so, according to the non-partisan Wisconsin Legislative Council, they neglected to follow legal procedure. The new policy was released as an...
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data from its Current Population Survey (CPS) on poverty, household income, and health insurance coverage. Nationally, more people are living in poverty--46.2 million in 2010--than at any other time since the federal government began estimating poverty 52 years ago. The national poverty rate jumped...
As WCCF noted in a press release today, the U.S. Census bureau released the Current Population Survey (CPS) data this morning, showing that more Americans are living in poverty -- 46.2 million in 2010 -- than at any other time since the federal government began estimating poverty 52 years ago. The national poverty rate jumped from 14.3%...
A first of its kind report by AARP, The Commonwealth Fund, and The Scan Foundation measured state-level performance of long-term services and support (LTSS) systems providing assistance to older people and adults with disabilities. The report is called “Raising Expectations: A State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for...
This afternoon, WCCF was pleased to participate in the announcement of the WI Patients’ Bill of Rights. Sponsored by Rep. Jon Richards and Sen. Jon Erpenbach, this bill looks for common ground around health care reform by addressing the pro-consumer measures from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), on which there is very broad public...
Although there are some resources available to aid immigrant families in navigating the health system, access to culturally and linguistically
appropriate care and information is not universally available in Wisconsin.
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) has released a report called The State of Working Wisconsin -- Update 2011, which examines the increased rates of unemployment and underemployment in Wisconsin and the disparate impact those problems on particular sectors of the workforce. Read more in the Wisconsin Budget Project’s Labor Day blog...
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