As the 35th anniversary of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) neared, the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) conducted a national survey detailing the progress states have made and the challenges that state and local communities still face in reaching full compliance with this act.The CJJ survey includes...
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a batch of new data on poverty, income and health insurance coverage from the Current Population Survey (CPS). On the national level, the CPS numbers show a big drop in median household income and an increase in poverty. The CPS data is available for your perusal on the Census Bureau website. This...
On Tuesday, September 7, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) turned 35 years old. The JJDPA set out federal standards for the custody and care of youth in the juvenile justice system. These standards include four core protections that help ensure the health and well-being of youth:--Deinstitutionalization of...
Wisconsin has received a federal grant of nearly $10 million per year that will be used to cover more adults without dependent children in the BadgerCare Plus Core Plan. The grant, which apparently will last for 5 years, buys the state a little bit of time before DHS needs to institute a waiting list for the Core Plan coverage. From...
This month, the US Census Bureau will be releasing key poverty information from two different data sets, the Current Population Survey (CPS, to be released this Thursday, 9/10) and the American Community Survey (ACS, coming on 9/23). WCCF and a zillion other organizations will be examining the data upon its release and seeking to tell...
"The face of America is changing. The number of Latino youth in this country has almost doubled in the last decade, and on any given day close to 18,000 Latino youth are incarcerated in America." Thus begins the foreword for a recent publication by the Campaign for Youth Justice titled "America's Invisible Children: Latino youth and the...
While the relative "value" of Youth Aids funding has declined over the years and the permutations of the Youth Aids formula has not necessarily kept up with local needs, the Youth Aids concept continues to be among the most creative approaches to juvenile justice funding in the nation. As states attempt to provide incentives to...
Economists generally agree that the most effective form of stimulus spending during an economic downturn is to get funding into the hands of people who most need assistance and will quickly use the dollars in their community. (See, for example, p. 10 of the Congressional testimony by Mark Zandi, the chief economist and cofounder of...
WCCF has published a special edition of our Wiskids Journal newsletter recapping what went down in the state budget process. This issue analyzes the 2009-11 state budget passed in July. Articles focus on how the gaping hole was closed (hint: federal stimulus funds and some carefully targeted state revenue uppers helped a lot), what the...
An article in today's Wisconsin State Journal notes that enrollment in the new program for childless adults within BadgerCare Plus is exceeding the state's projections. The article states that DHS Secretary Karen Timberlake has indicated that they may have to turn to waiting lists in order to keep the program on budget. According to the...
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