WCCF has created a Juvenile Justice Expenditures Snapshot of the key fiscal data, illustrating changes in funding, changes in the number of youth served, and that state Youth Aids funds account for less than one-half of juvenile justice related expenditures.
Funding in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) gives Wisconsin an exciting opportunity to close a very large gap in BadgerCare – coverage for low-income adults who aren’t custodial parents of minor children. To help facilitate an informed discussion of that issue, we prepared an outline of relevant data and analyses relating to who would gain...
These snapshots are a follow up to the state data posted last year, and it includes juvenile arrest information through 2010. Counties continue to make strides in reducing correctional placements while at the same time lowering arrest numbers.
Today marks the implementation of a much-anticipated package of preventive care services for women, as a part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Women make 80 percent of the health care decisions for their families and are more likely to provide care if a family member falls ill. And women are more likely to delay or avoid needed care...
New DHS Data Confirm Need to Improve Access to Care for Adults without Dependent ChildrenThe latest Family Health Survey results that were recently released by the Department of Health Services (DHS) show that low-income “childless adults” constitute a very large share of uninsured Wisconsin residents. Lumping together the 2009 and...
Our state faces a major decision in the next budget regarding whether to use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to improve access to health care for a large segment of uninsured Wisconsin – i.e., adults who aren’t custodial parents of a dependent child. Because this is a very significant policy choice for the state, we need to take a comprehensive look at the costs and benefits.
Walker’s Op-ed Column in the Washington Post Generates a False Rating In a PolitiFact article in Sunday’s Journal Sentinel, Guy Boulton and Dave Umhoefer critique an op-ed column by Governor Walker in the July 12 Washington Post, in which he contended that that the federal health care reform law would “devastate” Wisconsin. His...
Long-awaited 2010 Survey Results Show 11% Uninsured for All or Part of YearData released a week or so ago by the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services (DHS) indicate that an estimated 579,000 people were uninsured in Wisconsin for all or part of the 12 months preceding the department’s 2010 Family Health Survey. That amounts to 11 percent...
Children in Wisconsin are better off than children in 35 other states, according to the new Kids Count Index released yesterday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. That's the good news.The bad news is that Wisconsin is losing ground to other states in many areas of child-well being. For example, Wisconsin's child poverty rate increased...
Each year, the Annie E. Casey foundation publishes its KIDS COUNT Data Book, a state-by-state collection of indicators measuring the well-being of the nation’s children. We at WCCF try not to get too caught up in these sorts of composite rankings of which states are best for kids, but they can be very useful in monitoring trends within...
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