Today is Human Rights Day, perhaps a good day to reflect on the fact that the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Fortunately, more and more conservatives are discovering what progressives (and by the way what juvenile justice advocates have known for along time), that investing in “get tough on crime”...
New research led by Joseph P. Ryan at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through its Models for Change initiative, affirms (not surprisingly) that the likelihood of future delinquency involvement is higher for youth who were referred to the child protective...
Drop of 431,000 Wisconsinites with Employer Coverage Highlights Importance of New Opportunities for Improving Access to Care In 2011, the percentage of non-elderly Americans covered by employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) declined for the eleventh year in a row, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Economic Policy...
Study Concludes It Would Yield 24,000 Missouri Jobs Like many other states, Missouri has begun considering whether to use the option provided by the federal health care reform law to provide access to Medicaid to adults below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). As we noted in a recent blog post, a study committee in the very...
Adolescent brain research provides valuable information which can help guide policy design and implementation. Recent developments in understanding the growth and development of the human brain give a new lens to view adolescent behavior through. The National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) has developed a guide for juvenile justice...
Medicaid Opportunity in Health Care Reform Would Offset Other Costs An updated analysis released last week by the Urban Institute estimates that Wisconsin will save $248 million over the next ten years if the state uses the Medicaid option in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to close the gap in BadgerCare coverage for adults who aren’t...
Did you know that in Wisconsin there are an estimated 55,000 young adults, age 20-24, who are neither employed nor enrolled in school? These “disconnected youth” are part of 6.5 million US teens and young adults who are not finding their way into the workforce in ways that we once took for granted. Today, the Annie C. Casey Foundation...
Committee Unanimously Endorses Expansion to 138 Percent of Poverty Level Wisconsin lawmakers will decide in the next budget whether Wisconsin will begin in 2014 to take advantage of the option in the Affordable Care Act allowing the state to close the gap in BadgerCare for low-income adults who aren’t caretakers of children. Over the...
The number of people relying on food stamps has jumped in Wisconsin, thanks to the recession and a stubbornly high unemployment rate. In 2011, one out of every seven Wisconsin residents received food stamps, or FoodShare. That's a big increase from 2005, when one out of every 15 residents received food stamps. Children make up just...
Governor Walker’s decision last Friday to defer to the federal government on developing and running a health insurance exchange in Wisconsin didn’t surprise me, but his reasoning did. The reasons he cited may sound persuasive to the general public, but at least a couple of his chief arguments are questionable, at best. A good Capital...
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