Today’s Wisconsin Budget Project Blog post summarizes some of the key findings of the new State of Working Wisconsin report issued in conjunction with the Labor Day holiday. These reports, which are issued biennially by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), synthesize a broad range of data relating to recent and longer term Wisconsin...
Nearly 90% of Uninsured Wisconsinites Meet the Income Standards for Help Getting Insurance under the ACA Data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau helps illustrate the importance of provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to improve access to affordable health insurance. The new Census Bureau database includes not only...
According to a new report, Wisconsin's hospitals provided $1.2 billion of uncompensated health care services to their patients in fiscal year 2011. That figure increased by about $110 million, or 10.3%, compared to FY 2010.The large amount of uncompensated care helps illustrate the importance of improving access to quality insurance. ...
The National Juvenile Justice Network has recently approved a Policy Platform statement on Juvenile Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws.While difficult to apply every principle in every state, the platform provides some best practice guidelines that advocates can refer to as Wisconsin continues to develop policies and...
Yesterday, the Wisconsin Medical Journal (WMJ), a publication of the Wisconsin Medical Society, published a new study showing that exposure to secondhand smoke has decreased both inside and outside of homes in Wisconsin since the statewide smoke-free law went into effect in July 2010. This news was celebrated by many of our partners in...
House Plans Would Cut Even More than the Anticipated $6.5 Billion in FY 2013The broad federal budget cuts known as sequestration will begin in January to make deep cuts in federal funding for services to kids. A new two-page fact sheet by First Focus summarizes the expected $6.5 billion of cuts to programs affecting children. The...
Today, WCCF released a one-pager highlighting ten of the many reasons why Wisconsin should use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to fill the gap in BadgerCare -- by providing access to coverage for an estimated 181,000 low-income adults who aren’t caretakers of dependent children. You can find the PDF version here. Please share this...
Today I spent the day with a couple hundred health care stakeholders in Chicago at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regional forum on implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The day was an opportunity to learn from HHS, share updates, ask questions, and hear from other states in the Midwest on their...
This poster highlights a wide range of indicators of the well-being of children who live in Wisconsin's largest city, Milwaukee. Read more...
We are beginning to see how courts are interpreting recent Supreme Court decisions narrowing the possibility of someone being sentenced to Life without Parole for a crime committed as a juvenile. Following from the Roper and Graham decisions, and the more recent Miller v. Alabama case, questions remained as to how courts would...
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