About half the states encourage work sharing in order to reduce the number of people who are jobless. One way they can do so is by amending unemployment insurance statutes to allow employees whose hours have been reduced to collect partial unemployment benefits. Wisconsin is not one of the states that allows this, but State Senator...
What Do the New Guidelines Mean for the Medicaid Option? Yesterday federal officials released the 2013 Federal Poverty Income Guidelines, better known as the federal poverty level (FPL). States and the federal government use the guidelines to determine eligibility for many public assistance programs, such as Medicaid, BadgerCare and...
Wisconsin families who live in rural counties are the most likely to benefit from the state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), according to a new report from the Wisconsin Budget Project. The EITC provides a huge boost for Wisconsin’s rural economy and acts as an important resource for working families battling to stay out of poverty. ...
Martin Luther King Day is an important time to take stock of the well-being of children of color in our state. You need look no farther than the White House to recognize that in some respects, great strides have been made in terms of opportunity for African Americans in our country. But as child advocates, we are concerned about racial...
The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) announced some good news today: the number of Wisconsin school districts offering four-year-old kindergarten (4K) has more than doubled during the last ten years and has now reached 90 percent of all districts. The number of children in 4K programs has almost tripled during that time, reaching...
Several Conservative Governors Decide to Accept Federal Funds for Improving MedicaidMany Republicans governors don’t particularly like the Affordable Care Act (ACA); in fact, most have actively opposed it. Nevertheless, some of them are coming around and accepting the federal funding from the ACA to expand Medicaid up to 138% of the...
What can possibly explain why violent crimes are committed? Do you wonder after reading a tragic news article what on earth could possibly cause a person to commit such a horrendous crime? If so, you are not alone. Many professionals have dedicated their careers searching for an answer and resolution to violent crime, and there are...
Expenditure Trends: The Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program is on track to spend about $25 million less than budgeted in subsidy payments in the second year of the biennium ending June 30, 2013. The budget projection by the Department of Children and Families for Wisconsin Shares subsidy payments for SFY 2013 was $273.3 million....
Wisconsin should devote additional resources to collecting unpaid taxes that are owed to the
state. Increasing the amount of money and staff devoted to enforcing state tax laws would
increase the amount of revenue available to fund vital public services and also reduce the unfair burden on citizens who already pay the
taxes they legally owe.
For tax purposes, Wisconsin should treat profits from investments the same as income from
work. Currently, Wisconsin gives preferential treatment to profits from investments, which results in tax breaks for the best off. Most other states treat profits from investment the same as
income from work.
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