A letter submitted by the Walker Administration to the Joint Finance Committee on March 31 seeks numerous changes in the governor’s proposed 2011-13 budget bill. A new Wisconsin Budget Project blog post summarizes requested changes relating to programs for kids and human services, including the proposed modifications relating to school...
Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap project, shows hunger data for every county in the US. Food insecurity is closely linked with unemployment and poverty and it is well-documented that some racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., including American Indians, African Americans and Latinos, are disproportionately at risk for food insecurity....
As the Division of Juvenile Corrections (DJC) begins the process of closing two juvenile correctional institutions (JCI) - Ethan Allen School for Boys and Southern Oaks School for Girls - and consolidating all functions at one facility – Lincoln Hills School for Boys and, on the same property the Copper Lake School for Girls – we will...
Basic's Problems Highlight Importance of Health Care Reform ActThe Department of Health Services (DHS) announced Friday that it has frozen enrollment for the BadgerCare Basic program, effective on March 18th. The Basic plan was created by DHS to be a non-subsidized option for coverage of childless adults on the waiting list for the...
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families has released a two-page summary that describes the negative impact the state budget would have on working families. With cuts to education, health care, mass transportation, and important anti-poverty initiatives, the budget repair bill and the biennial budget proposal hits middle- and...
The budget documents released last Tuesday talk in broad terms about how the Walker Administration wants to change BadgerCare Plus and Medicaid to cut costs by about $500 million in the 2011-13 biennium; however, those summary documents provide no specifics. But if someone were to study the 1,345-page bill, surely they would find the...
As momentum continues to grow around implementing best practices, evidence-based practices, research-based practices -- OK, so pick the term you want to use – the point is how do we use the body of research about what works to improve practice in the juvenile justice world? And, how do we transition our systems from what we now do to...
The Governor’s budget introduced today includes the closing of two juvenile correctional institutions, Southern Oaks School (Union Grove; girls) and Ethan Allen School (Wales; boys), and moving those youth to one consolidated juvenile correctional institution, Lincoln Hills School (Irma). As everyone is aware, the population at the...
The Coalition for Juvenile Justice, a network of state’s advisory groups, has responded to President Obama’s budget which consolidates Title II and JABG funds into a new bucket called Juvenile Justice System Incentive Grants. While supporting the positives of the incentive grant approach – and there are some – CJJ suggests using that...
Without a Deal Early This Week, Window Will Close for $165 Million Short-term Savings As a recent Wisconsin Budge Project Blog post noted, one of the relatively easy ways to close the projected $137 million budget shortfall in the 2010-11 fiscal year is to restructure some state debt. That maneuver, which is part of Governor Walker’s...
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