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...
Each year WCCF updates a one-page brochure that helps educate people about the major refundable tax credits for low-income families -- the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC), the state Homestead Tax Credit, and the federal child tax credit. Please help us get the flyer into the hands of low-income families who could...
Some years back Michael Males wrote a book called “The Scapegoat Generation” in which he debunked the many myths about youth, including the myth of the coming generation of super-predators. Males continues to be one of the best researchers in using actual data to talk about trends in youth behavior – and you can view a brief video and...
Great News For BadgerCare, Funds Should Enable the State To Avoid Most of the Proposed Cuts In a letter to the Joint Finance Committee, the Department of Health Services (DHS) revised estimates of a $554 million shortfall in this biennium’s Medicaid budget, down to $231.8 million all funds. This is great news for Wisconsin, especially...
December 31st, 2011, was a date we heard a lot about with regard to the Wisconsin Medicaid budget; however, it has come and gone without too much commotion. Let’s backtrack and discuss the significance of this arbitrary deadline, and look ahead to what may happen now that it has passed. To Recap: In the biennial budget, the...
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