Seems Likely He’ll Implement a Heritage Foundation Supported ExchangeThis morning, the Washington Post’s article, “Will Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Implement Health-Care Reform?”, noted that of the seven early innovator state grantees, Wisconsin is the only state with a GOP Governor holding onto the money. Oklahoma returned its grant in...
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act was signed into law on July 27th, 2006 by President George W. Bush with the intention of keeping tabs on sexual offenders. The Adam Walsh Act organizes offenders into 3 tiers. Tier 3, the most serious tier, mandates that offenders update their whereabouts every 3 months, with lifetime...
The National Juvenile Justice Network has just released a policy platform on Safe and Effective School Disciplinary Policies and Practices. Sparked by concerns about school safety, in the 1990’s and into the last decade, schools implemented a variety of “get tough” policies and practices that led to a steady rise in the number of...
Part way through World Breastfeeding Week (this week), child advocates have seen a major victory as well as a challenge. On Monday the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released guidelines on preventative services to be available to women with no additional co-pay under the Affordable Care Act. These eight requirements,...
A Journal Sentinel article posted late Wednesday afternoon reports that Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services (DHS) “has declined to make or back applications for federal public health grants that could have totaled more than $9 million over the next five years.” Most of that total represents two grants for combating alcohol and...
WCCF has just posted a 2010 Report on the use of Juvenile Detention that indicates a slowing but continued decline in the number of youth held in temporary juvenile detention centers – from as many as 14,000 admitted in 2007 to approximately 9,600 youth admitted in 2010. Highlights of interest include:• Consistent with earlier years,...
The state Senate wrapped up work today on a bill enabling Wisconsin to use an estimated $88 million of federal funding to extend unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for up to 13 weeks for the long-term unemployed. The bill, SB 147, could benefit as many as 40,000 Wisconsinites between now and the end of the year. Once the bill is...
For the past month, we’ve been using this series of blog posts, “31 Ways in 31 Days,” to draw attention to some of the ways the recently passed 2011-13 biennial state budget stands to affect children and families in Wisconsin. But let’s be clear: 31 is a rather arbitrary number we picked simply because it coincides conveniently with the...
Earlier in this series, we noted that the state budget is reducing general aid to schools by nearly $750 million over the biennium (see Way #1: Massive Cuts to School Funding Threaten Wisconsin's Tradition of High-Quality Education), and withdrawing more than $45 million in state support for specific programs in Wisconsin school...
It’s a difficult time to get a job, especially a good job. So it’s not surprising that participation in the Wisconsin Works program, W-2, has risen. W-2 helps low-income parents develop a self-sufficiency plan that can include job placements, other work activities, and education and job training. The program works in tandem with...
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