Undocumented immigrants have played a part in depositing over a hundred million dollars in Wisconsin’s Unemployment Insurance trust fund over the past decade, yet the federal government excludes them from collecting unemployment benefits paid for from the fund. This exclusion is part of a larger pattern in which workers who are...
Wisconsinites have experienced years of redistricting, maps analyzed in private meetings, and fingers pointed over gerrymandering. All of this leaves a bad taste over how some Wisconsinites are represented in our government. While the federal courts have delayed the trial date in Wisconsin’s partisan redistricting, one thing we can...
In order to know where we need to go to achieve equity in early learning, we need to know where we’ve been. Using data from 2016, Kids Forward has created a baseline report as a point of departure. The findings in this report will be updated to see where we have gone since 2016. That more current data, along with increased community...
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Despite once-in-a-generation challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration and 18 states are still asking the US Supreme Court to rule that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional and entirely repeal the decade old health law. Kids Forward joined with Harvard’s Center for Law and Policy Innovation and...
As our nation begins to transition in to the next phase of our pandemic response, which includes planning for reopening states and our larger economy, we must center the well-being and basic needs of those essential frontline workers that have continued to be overworked, underpaid, and left out of the healing process – our immigrant...
Wisconsin Is Second-to-Last State to Adjust Medicaid for the Pandemic On April 20, Wisconsin became the 49th state to get federal approval for adjustments in Medicaid that strengthen the program’s role in combating the Coronavirus pandemic. By contrast, almost four-fifths of states had gotten similar federal authorization by the end of...
The coronavirus pandemic is causing widespread unemployment throughout the world, and many in the US are losing more than their job and income. They are also losing their health insurance at a time when coverage is critical. In the last few weeks, the US has seen unprecedented spikes in joblessness with more than 20 million people...
Folks of Color on the Front Lines of Our Collective Survival and Our Losses PDF Version The coronavirus has and will forever change our communities and our nation. It has taken tens of thousands of lives in the United States and our collective losses continue to grow. The only thing that is preventing a far greater and grimmer tragedy...
Today, April 22nd 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day; founded in Wisconsin in 1970 by Sen. Gaylord Nelson. Nelson was one of many treasured environmentalists in Wisconsin’s history including some of the nation’s premier conservation advocates: Increase Lapham, whose advocacy in Wisconsin influenced the likes of Henry David...
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