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Achieving Equity in Early Learning: A Baseline Report on Race and Ethnicity in Wisconsin Shares, YoungStar and Four-Year-Old Kindergarten
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Trump Administration Still Suing to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
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...
Not All Heroes Wear Capes, Millions Wear Wings
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...
Republican Litigation Seeks a Slower Process for Pandemic Planning, Concentrating Power in a Handful of Legislators
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...
Lesson from a Pandemic: Everyone Needs Health Insurance
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...
Both Essential and Expendable
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...
In the Fight for the Environment We Need to Center Communities of Color
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...
Extending “Safer at Home” is the Right Call for Wisconsin’s Health
Governor Evers is right to extend the Safer at Home Order to protect the lives of the people of Wisconsin. The total number of infections and deaths in Wisconsin is much lower than it would have been without the order, and it is premature to change tactics now without additional measures being in place to keep Wisconsinites...
Comparing Health Care Changes Proposed by the Governor and the Legislature’s COVID-19 Response Bill
PDF Version Governor Evers has proposed temporary changes to Medicaid and broad investments for health providers, public health, and health systems to help mitigate the calamitous impact COVID-19 is having on the health and well-being of Wisconsin people and businesses. In addition to necessary changes to Medicaid, it included about...
Amend the CARES Act So More Parents Receive Stimulus Checks
The recently developed federal stimulus package known as the CARES Act put in place an unprecedented amount of financial support for many workers who filed taxes in the United States. One component of the benefit is a $1,200 payment that goes to many adult federal tax filers. However, some groups have been excluded from this stimulus...
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