This month, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a possible rule change for undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens who are eligible for legal permanent resident (LPR) status. Under current regulations, those seeking LPR status must leave the United States in order to file for a visa. Many of those...
Certification of a Deficit Would Allow State to End or Modify BadgerCare Eligibility for 53,000 AdultsGovernor Walker and many Republican legislators have said repeatedly that the biennial budget bill brought the state budget into balance. I agree with that assessment. However, the Department of Health Services (DHS) sent a letter to...
Black Infant Mortality Rate Declines, But Remains Nearly Three Times the White RateFollowing up on yesterday’s blog post about the proposals of the Special Committee on Infant Mortality, it’s timely to note that today the Department of Health Services issued its annual report on “Wisconsin Births and Infant Deaths” (for 2010). The...
Yesterday, the Joint Legislative Council met to hear the recommendations of a number of special committees. As we discussed in Tuesday’s blog post, the Special Committee on Infant Mortality put forth particularly important legislative recommendations, which we strongly support. Unfortunately, the majority of these proposals were not...
Will the Governor Give up the Grant; Will Federal Officials End It; or Neither of the Above? An interesting article posted online late Monday by Politico describes “Scott Walker's health care dilemma.” The topic is the question of whether the Governor will decide to forsake the Early Innovator grant Wisconsin received a year ago to...
Tomorrow morning at 8:30am, the Joint Legislative Council will meet to consider a series of reports out of special committees. All the reports have interesting and important recommendations to consider, but one is of particular importance to families in Wisconsin – the Special Committee on Infant Mortality.Wisconsin has one of the worst...
As mentioned in our recent blog post, Healthcare Highlights of the Holiday Hiatus, Governor Walker announced on December 28th that he wants to lift the cap on Family Care (as well as IRIS and Family Care Partnership) and allow all counties to participate. Later that day, reporters discovered that the Administration had been directed by...
Walker Eases His Position on Two Issues, but Reverses His Support for ExchangesDid you get out of Wisconsin for a week or two in late December or early January? Or perhaps you stayed in town over the holidays, but took a vacation from political news. Even if you only took a brief break from following the news, you may have missed some...
The biennial budget bill made numerous changes that affect Wisconsin’s low- and moderate-income working families in negative ways. Some of those changes took effect on January 1, 2012, and others that apply to tax year 2011 will first be felt by Wisconsinites as they file their tax returns this year.
As the calendar turned to 2012, many of Wisconsin’s working families began to feel the effects of state budget cuts and policy changes made in the biennial budget bill signed into law last July. According to a new synopsis of delayed budget changes by WCCF, working families are beginning this month to be adversely affected by a number...
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