Low-income Wisconsinites could bear the brunt of a variety of actions by House Republicans aimed at cutting SNAP benefits. Reductions in SNAP benefits – formerly known as food stamps – would jeopardize the economic security of many people in Wisconsin who depend on SNAP to make ends meet. More than a million people in Wisconsin received...
The budget bill as amended by Joint Finance is a litany of missed opportunities. It benefits the wealthy few while shortchanging children and families by failing to address the most pressing needs of our communities, our economy, and our collective future.
Whether you’re a pediatrician, teacher, policymaker or parent – we can all agree that the future rests in the development and well-being of our children. One of the best ways to ensure their success and strengthen our community is making sure every child has access to quality early childhood education in the first five years of life....
Gone the 4th of July week? Here’s a way to catch up on a flurry of press about child care. A front-page two-part series in the Wisconsin State Journal (WSJ) led to several reactions focusing on YoungStar’s impact on improving quality and the challenges of an underfunded child care system. Altogether there were 7 articles, columns, and...
Check out the excellent two-part series on YoungStar and its impact on the child care workforce in the Wisconsin State Journal June 30 and July 1. The two articles were both front-page lead stories, written by veteran reporter Doug Erickson. The articles focused on:• Earning Their Stars: The state’s YoungStar rating system sends droves...
A valuable resource for researching child well-being just got easier to use. A major overhaul of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Data Center has streamlined the process for accessing hundreds of child well-being indicators related to education, employment and income, health, poverty and youth risk factors. The Wisconsin...
Today, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced three public hearings and one tribal consultation on the proposed BadgerCare waiver, which would make the changes required by the state budget. The changes would cause nearly 100,000 adults with income above the poverty line to lose BadgerCare coverage, in order for...
In Wisconsin and a number of other states, concerns have been raised about taking tainted ObamaCare dollars for the expansion of Medicaid. With that concern in mind, lawmakers here approved a health care plan that rejects those Medicaid dollars and will cost Wisconsin taxpayers almost $150 million more in the 2013-15 budget period than...
Governor's BadgerCare Changes Raise the Stakes for New Marketplace's Success or Failure The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF) sent a letter to Governor Walker Monday urging him to fully or partially veto a provision added to the budget bill that could reduce the effectiveness of the health care reform law. The amendment...
But Post-Recession Economic Bounceback Remains ElusiveConditions are slowly improving in some regards for Wisconsin’s children, but they remain considerably worse-off economically than they were before the recession. The 2013 National KIDS COUNT Data Book, published each year by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, paints a mixed picture both...
Your address helps us identify your legislators and the most relevant messages to send you.