In the movie theaters, Katniss Everdeen is trapped in the Hunger Games, negotiating a love triangle and fighting against the Capitol. Closer to home, many Wisconsin residents are facing a different version of the Hunger Games, one that involves making choices between paying the rent and buying food for their families. If parts of the...
DHS Secretary Indicates There Won’t Be a Minimum Standard for Employer Coverage that Makes Adults Ineligible for BadgerCare A new 2-page WCCF paper provides a brief status report on the cost-cutting changes that the Department of Health Services (DHS) has been seeking to make to BadgerCare. It includes a table that provides a...
The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) allows states to get federal matching funds for extending health insurance to certain immigrants who are not citizens
The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families has just completed two policy briefs focused on the rollout of YoungStar quality initiative:· YoungStar in Wisconsin: Analysis of Data as of January 2012 and · Milwaukee YoungStar Survey Shows a Mixture of Optimism and Anxiety The YoungStar child care quality rating and...
Today marks the two-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. The Affordable Care Act keeps kids covered by preventing insurance companies from denying coverage for children with pre-existing conditions like asthma or mental illness. Prior to passage, insurance companies could refuse to accept...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is making our health care system stronger and more sustainable for our children. Today we celebrate the consumer protections, such as rate review and the medical loss ratio, which guard against inefficiency in the insurance system and give families the assurance that premium costs are going towards medical...
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), preventative care has either been maintained or improved for more than half of the nation’s children – giving us reason to celebrate the achievements of the last two years.We know that preventative care is vital to ensure healthy development in children. It helps to ensure children can thrive in...
Today the Supreme Court heard arguments that could push our nation further along the road of justice for juveniles. You can get a recap of the arguments and what transpired today through the SCOTUS blog. The Court has been on that road for several years already, having made two landmark decisions benefiting convicted kids. In 2005 they...
Because women are typically the primary coordinators of care for their entire family, the benefits they receive from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also improve the lives of their kids. Already, more than 20 million women and their kids have stayed healthy through better access to free preventive services like well-child visits, new baby...
In a short research brief, Jeff Butts of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and one of the nation’s leading researchers on juvenile justice issues, concludes that there is simply no correlation between transferring or prosecuting youth in adult courts and the falling rates of youth crime. Titled Transfer of Juveniles to Criminal...
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