Northwestern University researchers have published a study on Head Start’s impact on parents’ educational achievement. Researchers Terri Sabol and Lindsay Chase-Lansdale used data from the Head Start Impact Study to ask: “If children are randomly assigned to Head Start, do their parents advance their own education?” The results are...
Voters in many parts of Wisconsin will have an opportunity next Tuesday (Nov. 4th) to tell state lawmakers whether they should reverse the decision to turn down federal funding to cover more adults in BadgerCare. There are many reasons why people should vote “yes” on that referendum question – to support taking the federal funding –...
A new publication, Being Black is Not a Risk Factor, has been published by the Milwaukee Black Child Development Institute (BCDI). Here is a summary from BCDI’s press release: “Similar to the national report, the goal of the Wisconsin report is to provide data-rich information on how our children are doing, and to address the needs of...
A Marketplace Special Enrollment Period Ends on Nov. 2nd About 63,000 Wisconsinites lost their BadgerCare eligibility in April, and a large portion of them are now uninsured -- as the following pie chart illustrates. But those who can afford to purchase a subsidized private plan through the federal health insurance Marketplace still...
Participation of Childless Adults in BadgerCare Far Exceeds Forecasts, While Parent and Child Enrollment Continues to Fall The cost to state taxpayers of turning down federal funding for expansion of BadgerCare will be substantially higher the next time the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) makes that calculation. The potential savings...
Blog post from NIEER: As teachers and students alike head back to classrooms, the hopes and dreams of another school year lie on the horizon. Parents are sending their children off to preschool for the big “first day of school,” especially in New York City, where 50,000 children have enrolled in the city’s expanded pre-K program,...
There is finally some good news with respect to Wisconsin’s Medicaid budget. The Department of Health Services (DHS) reported today that the previously anticipated Medicaid shortfall has been almost completely eliminated. The department’s previous quarterly report estimated that the state needed to find $93 million of General Fund...
This coming Wednesday, October 1, marks the start of a new federal fiscal year and with it a significant drop in the federal share of funding that helps support Wisconsin’s Medicaid program. The federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), based on a federal formula that reduces the federal share in states where median income is...
The 2015-17 budget proposal recently submitted by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) illustrates very clearly why balancing the state budget is extremely difficult when the state is going into the next biennium with a large “structural deficit.” In terms of the funding needed for the Medicaid and BadgerCare Plus programs,...
I was in Green Bay this past summer for the annual meeting of the Community Partnership for Children, coordinated through the Brown County United Way, and focused on school readiness. Here was the shocker for me: last year 86% of families with newborn babies in Brown County received a Welcome Baby home visit. That’s 2,918 visits. They...
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