The last week of March, the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the Affordable Care Act. While Americans await the Court's decision about the ACA, the next contentious issue facing the justices is the fate of Arizona’s now infamous anti-immigration legislation, Arizona SB 1070. The Immigration Policy Center released a Q and A...
Kids of all backgrounds need health coverage and access to quality care. As we reflect on April as Minority Health Month, we are grateful that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is already working – and will continue to improve health care choices and outcomes – for kids and families. For minority children in Wisconsin, celebrating Minority...
According to a Wisconsin Budget Project analysis released Friday, the recent contraction of the state’s Medicaid deficit allows the remaining shortfall to be eliminated without damaging cuts to BadgerCare that could adversely affect more than 300,000 Wisconsinites. Read more in Friday’s Budget Project Blog post, or go directly to the...
Full Brunt of Cuts Falls on Low-income Households, None on Farm Subsidies The Ryan budget plan that was approved by House Republicans a couple of weeks ago was just a general blueprint for the budget, with most of the details remaining to be worked out by various committees. Six committees in the House are now in the process of writing...
CBPP Analysis Concludes Wisconsin Would Have Lost 39% of Its Medicaid Funding in 2010A paper released today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) asks the question: what would have been the effect if Chairman Ryan’s budget plan, including the Medicaid block grant, had been in effect from 2001 through 2010. The CBPP...
It’s long been known that living in an unstable housing situation puts kids at higher risk of all sorts of negative outcomes. They are more likely to have problems in school, health problems, social problems….the list goes on and on. So given the huge number of home foreclosures over the past few years, it seems important to consider...
A report released Wednesday by the Department of Public Instruction provides the best data yet on the effects to schools of the changes made in the budget repair and biennial budget bills. As the department’s press release noted, 73 percent of Wisconsin’s school districts cut teachers during the 2011-12 school year. In response to...
Wisconsin’s supply of regulated family child care providers is rapidly diminishing, according to WCCF’s analysis. The decline is clear for both licensed family child centers and for smaller family child care programs certified to receive Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy funding.Steep Drop in Licensed Family Child Care...
Do you think you know a lot about government revenue? Perhaps, but take a minute or two to find out by taking a quick look at a few new resources from the Wisconsin Budget Project and others.Test your knowledge of taxes and spending in Wisconsin – The WI Budget Project has prepared an updated and abbreviated version of our tax and...
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, was in Madison on Wednesday and delivered some great news for children, although the story has largely escaped media attention. Following a small meeting about benefits of the health care reform law for women, Secretary Sebelius met with a few reporters and was...
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