Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data from its Current Population Survey (CPS) on poverty, household income, and health insurance coverage. Nationally, more people are living in poverty--46.2 million in 2010--than at any other time since the federal government began estimating poverty 52 years ago. The national poverty rate jumped...
As WCCF noted in a press release today, the U.S. Census bureau released the Current Population Survey (CPS) data this morning, showing that more Americans are living in poverty -- 46.2 million in 2010 -- than at any other time since the federal government began estimating poverty 52 years ago. The national poverty rate jumped from 14.3%...
A first of its kind report by AARP, The Commonwealth Fund, and The Scan Foundation measured state-level performance of long-term services and support (LTSS) systems providing assistance to older people and adults with disabilities. The report is called “Raising Expectations: A State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for...
This afternoon, WCCF was pleased to participate in the announcement of the WI Patients’ Bill of Rights. Sponsored by Rep. Jon Richards and Sen. Jon Erpenbach, this bill looks for common ground around health care reform by addressing the pro-consumer measures from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), on which there is very broad public...
Although there are some resources available to aid immigrant families in navigating the health system, access to culturally and linguistically
appropriate care and information is not universally available in Wisconsin.
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) has released a report called The State of Working Wisconsin -- Update 2011, which examines the increased rates of unemployment and underemployment in Wisconsin and the disparate impact those problems on particular sectors of the workforce. Read more in the Wisconsin Budget Project’s Labor Day blog...
Two consumer advocacy groups issued a press release this afternoon calling Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel’s newly identified membership of the health insurance exchange work groups “unacceptable.” Under the Affordable Care Act, states are required to establish health insurance exchanges as an important tool for consumers of all...
The Republican Governors Association (RGA) released a report Tuesday (Aug. 30) detailing 31 recommendations for loosening federal Medicaid standards, in order to give states far more autonomy in determining who is eligible and what they are eligible for. The report, titled A New Medicaid: A Flexible, Innovative and Accountable Future,...
How do Wisconsin's schools compare to those in other states? A new Wisconsin Budget Project analysis asks this question, and finds that Wisconsin, once a national leader in educational performance, now ranks close to the national average in many measures of support for education.Here's an excerpt from the analysis: Wisconsin schools...
Just read a very interesting and provocative letter from Leonard Witt of the Center for Sustainable Journalism to the CEO of Disney related to the inconsistency between the Disney vision and the latest season of Beyond Scared Straight showing on the A&E Network, owned in large part (one-third) by Disney. In his letter, Mr. Witt points...
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