Children in low-income families will bear the brunt of reductions in FoodShare benefits (also known as food stamps) that go into effect on Friday, according to a new Wisconsin Budget Project report. Last year, 1 in 3 Wisconsin children received food assistance through the FoodShare program. The Recovery Act included a modest boost to...
About 15,000 Adults who are Affected Will at Least Briefly Retain Coverage in Transitional Medicaid Don’t be surprised if you start hearing state officials citing lower figures for the number of adults who will lose their BadgerCare coverage at the end of the year. In a sense it’s good news, but it isn’t so much “news’ as an overdue...
Many residents of Wisconsin have yet to fully rebound from the impact of the recession that began five years ago, according to a new county-level analysis released today by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. A typical Wisconsin household earned less money in 2012 than it did before the recession, according to the analysis....
WCCF has analyzed county-level Census Bureau data on poverty, income, and health insurance coverage for 21 Wisconsin counties, and found that state residents have not yet fully rebound from the impact of the recession that began five years ago.
As the fall colors begin to glow, I thought I would focus on some of the recent progress in Wisconsin’s early learning and development landscape. In the midst of increasingly partisan battles at state and national levels, and after disappointing results in the state’s biennial budget, here are six encouraging trends.YoungStar: 65% of...
Needless to say, the initial roll out of the online application process for getting coverage through the new federal health insurance Marketplace has been very frustrating for people shopping for insurance and also for those of us who simply want to check it out. Although some of the state-operated insurance marketplaces seem to be...
Wisconsin's Unique Medicaid Solution Necessitates that Diverse Parties Work Together Over the last couple of months, there have been numerous reports about a large hole in the Affordable Care Act – stemming from the Supreme Court’s decision to make it optional for states to expand Medicaid coverage to all citizens below 138% of the...
WCCF has been arguing all year that Wisconsin shouldn’t push 90,000 people off BadgerCare in December – at the same time that hundreds of thousands of uninsured Wisconsinites are trying to enroll in the new insurance Marketplace. Also at that time, about 25,000 people now in the state’s high risk pool will have to try to buy coverage...
$11 Million Drop in Homestead Credit Offers OpportunitiesGovernor Walker’s proposed $100 million property tax cut is on a fast track through the legislature, with the Senate voting to approve the measure today and the Assembly set to consider the measure as soon as Thursday. The rush to cut property taxes is a bit ironic considering...
This chart is a handy reference for the income levels that are relevant for BadgerCare and the Affordable Care Act. It shows the income limits and thresholds for people in different family sizes from 100% to 400% of the federal poverty level, and contains tables that convert the annual income limits into monthly and hourly amounts....
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