Last month, we shared some of the ways that youth in custody and the staff who serve them are more vulnerable to COVID-19. We also urged Wisconsin officials and administrators to follow guidelines from Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice to reduce the risk of infection in juvenile detention facilities. The guidelines included best...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2020 CONTACT: Ken Taylor, Executive Directorktaylor@kidsforward.org, 608.206.5237William Parke-Sutherland, Health Policy Engagement Coordinatorwparkesutherland@kidsforward.org, 608.284-0580 x317 PDF Version MADISON, WI – More than twenty-five state organizations representing a broad cross-section of...
Wisconsinites have experienced years of redistricting, maps analyzed in private meetings, and fingers pointed over gerrymandering. All of this leaves a bad taste over how some Wisconsinites are represented in our government. While the federal courts have delayed the trial date in Wisconsin’s partisan redistricting, one thing we can...
In order to know where we need to go to achieve equity in early learning, we need to know where we’ve been. Using data from 2016, Kids Forward has created a baseline report as a point of departure. The findings in this report will be updated to see where we have gone since 2016. That more current data, along with increased community...
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Despite once-in-a-generation challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration and 18 states are still asking the US Supreme Court to rule that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional and entirely repeal the decade old health law. Kids Forward joined with Harvard’s Center for Law and Policy Innovation and...
As our nation begins to transition in to the next phase of our pandemic response, which includes planning for reopening states and our larger economy, we must center the well-being and basic needs of those essential frontline workers that have continued to be overworked, underpaid, and left out of the healing process – our immigrant...
The coronavirus pandemic is causing widespread unemployment throughout the world, and many in the US are losing more than their job and income. They are also losing their health insurance at a time when coverage is critical. In the last few weeks, the US has seen unprecedented spikes in joblessness with more than 20 million people...
Folks of Color on the Front Lines of Our Collective Survival and Our Losses PDF Version The coronavirus has and will forever change our communities and our nation. It has taken tens of thousands of lives in the United States and our collective losses continue to grow. The only thing that is preventing a far greater and grimmer tragedy...
PDF Version Health coverage is more important now than ever. People need access to quality, affordable health care in case they are infected by the Coronavirus, and they need treatment for health conditions that put them at greater risk if they are exposed. Unfortunately, the surge in unemployment resulting from the pandemic has caused...
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