Tomorrow afternoon, Governor Walker will deliver his State of the State address. Traditionally, governors have not used the State of the State address to focus on the well-being of children, but they should. Today’s children grow up to be tomorrow’s workers, caregivers, and leaders. If we want to have a healthy, well-educated workforce...
DHS Projects State Share of Medicaid Spending to be $312 Million Less than Budgeted Medicaid spending in Wisconsin has been far less than state lawmakers anticipated when they approved the 2015-17 budget bill 18 months ago. The sharply reduced estimates of Medicaid spending undercut the argument that state policymakers will have to...
Repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which seems to be a high priority for some members of Congress and the President-elect, would hurt Wisconsinites in far more ways than most people realize. A new WCCF fact sheet summarizes some of the most significant effects of repealing the ACA without enacting a viable replacement plan....
The ACA played a pivotal role in decreasing the uninsured rate in Wisconsin, with great gains in rural counties and significant coverage gains for communities of color.
The almost two-decade decline in the number of juveniles arrested in Wisconsin each year continued to decline through 2015, as noted in a recent WCCF Report on The State of Juvenile Justice in Wisconsin. As one would expect, that leads into declines in a number of other areas, including declines in the number of youth in a juvenile...
This report is an update of an earlier 2015 report and includes data through 2015. Fortunately, many of the trends noted in the prior reports have continued, as juvenile arrests have continued to decline and there has been a growth in support for successful community-based programs. Read the full report here.
A large number of people are incarcerated each year for revocation, a criminal offense that occurs when someone is released from prison and breaks the rules of their supervision. Estimates suggest that across the U.S., half of the people in jails and more than one-third of the people entering prison are locked up for a revocation. In...
North Carolina is making waves again in early childhood! The state’s investment in two early child care and education programs, Smart Start and More at Four, has resulted in higher test scores, less grade retention and fewer special education placement through fifth grade. The research was done by the Duke Center for Child and Family...
In the last six years Wisconsin has been building a new system to increase the quality of child care, with a particular focus on children from low-income working families. The new system is called YoungStar and serves as a Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). Our report, YoungStar: What Does Research Tell Us, will explore what...
This is a 2008 WCCF publication outlining why 17 year olds should not be charged as adults, including a review of some of the collateral consequences of youth getting an adult arrest and/or court record. Although the numbers have changed, the basic content of this report informs our on-going efforts to raise the age of adult court...
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