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Indigenous People’s Day: Wisconsin’s Native Communities Deserve To Be Heard, To Be Respected, and To Thrive.

Today, across the United States, cities, states, and Native nations are celebrating Indigenous People’s Day. However, here in Wisconsin, despite attempts by Native American communities, including youth, to advocate the Wisconsin legislature to recognize Indigenous People’s Day, state leaders continue to choose to ignore its 12 Native nations in favor of honoring a man who desecrated an entire people.

Five Charts that Tell the Story of Poverty in Wisconsin

New figures released last week by the Census Bureau show that an unacceptable number of Wisconsinites, including children, are living in poverty. Here are five charts drawn from the data that describe the number of Wisconsin residents who have incomes too low to meet basic needs.

Four Key Steps to Protecting Wisconsinites’ Access to Insurance

New Census data released today shows that the number of Wisconsinites who don’t have health insurance ticked up last year. The number is still much lower than in 2013 before major pieces of the Affordable Care Act were put in place. About 208,000 fewer Wisconsin residents were uninsured last year compared with 2013, a 40 percent decline.

Lawsuit Poses Latest Threat to Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions

Do you or someone you know have anxiety, depression, cancer, asthma, diabetes, heart disease? These are some of the most common pre-existing conditions, which prior to 2014 insurance companies could refuse to cover. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurance companies can no longer deny someone coverage or charge them more...

Q&A: Insurance Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions

This Q&A report explores the history of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, the protections provided by the ACA, and the current threats to that coverage from policymakers and political leaders in Wisconsin and at the federal level.

Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System Are Getting Worse

Wisconsin’s juvenile justice system disproportionately ensnares youth of color, hindering their ability to grow and flourish. A new report released by Race to Equity reveals that while incarceration rates may have declined, racial inequities within this system have vastly expanded.

Stabilizing the Affordable Care Act Requires Defending It, Not Just a Reinsurance Plan

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is under continued attack from the Trump administration, and the latest assault threatens coverage of preexisting conditions and the viability of the subsidized health insurance Marketplace—unless states intervene to protect their residents.

Wisconsin’s Tradition of Welcoming Refugees Under Attack

Wisconsin has a long history of welcoming people from around the globe who are fleeing war or persecution, a tradition that is put at risk by actions taken by President Trump’s administration to severely limit the number of refugees the country will accept.

2018 KIDS COUNT® Data Book

According to the 2018 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Wisconsin is ranked 12th overall in child well-being. Despite its relatively high ranking, Wisconsin could be doing a lot more to give every child in the state the opportunity to thrive. Child poverty remains stubbornly high in Wisconsin with nearly...

Who’s Paying for the Trump Administration’s Non-Stop Sabotage of the ACA?

President Trump recently declared “Obamacare dead,” yet despite numerous attacks from his administration and opponents in Congress, the Affordable Care Act keeps on ticking. It seems Trump can’t kill the ACA, but he is making it more and more expensive.

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Indigenous People’s Day: Wisconsin’s Native Communities Deserve To Be Heard, To Be Respected, and To Thrive.

Five Charts that Tell the Story of Poverty in Wisconsin

Four Key Steps to Protecting Wisconsinites’ Access to Insurance

Lawsuit Poses Latest Threat to Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions

Q&A: Insurance Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions

Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System Are Getting Worse

Stabilizing the Affordable Care Act Requires Defending It, Not Just a Reinsurance Plan

Wisconsin’s Tradition of Welcoming Refugees Under Attack

2018 KIDS COUNT® Data Book

Who’s Paying for the Trump Administration’s Non-Stop Sabotage of the ACA?

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