With the relatively recent US Supreme Court (USSC) decision that prohibits mandatory life without parole sentences for individuals who committed crimes while under the age of 18, a couple key issues are making their way through state courts, including: (1) are excessively long sentences given in lieu of JLWOP essentially a life sentence...
Six health care advocacy groups sent a letter to the Walker Administration today seeking information on the state’s plans relating to BadgerCare if the online portal for the new health insurance Marketplace continues to have significant problems. WCCF was one of the six groups – along with Community Advocates Public Policy Institute,...
Despite Assurances, Bill Fails to Delay End of BadgerCare Coverage before an Effective Insurance Exchange is in Place Should Wisconsin drop about 90,000 people from BadgerCare on January 1, even if most of them will not have been able to sign up for insurance through the new Marketplace by then? During the budget process, there seemed...
LFB Paper Confirms Large Gap in Budget for the State's Welfare to Work Program The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) is scheduled to meet this Wednesday, November 6, on a number of budget issues, including a couple that we will be watching. Among those is a proposal from the Dept. of Children and Families (DCF) and Dept. of Health Services...
Children in low-income families will bear the brunt of reductions in FoodShare benefits (also known as food stamps) that go into effect on Friday, according to a new Wisconsin Budget Project report. Last year, 1 in 3 Wisconsin children received food assistance through the FoodShare program. The Recovery Act included a modest boost to...
About 15,000 Adults who are Affected Will at Least Briefly Retain Coverage in Transitional Medicaid Don’t be surprised if you start hearing state officials citing lower figures for the number of adults who will lose their BadgerCare coverage at the end of the year. In a sense it’s good news, but it isn’t so much “news’ as an overdue...
Many residents of Wisconsin have yet to fully rebound from the impact of the recession that began five years ago, according to a new county-level analysis released today by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. A typical Wisconsin household earned less money in 2012 than it did before the recession, according to the analysis....
WCCF has analyzed county-level Census Bureau data on poverty, income, and health insurance coverage for 21 Wisconsin counties, and found that state residents have not yet fully rebound from the impact of the recession that began five years ago.
As the fall colors begin to glow, I thought I would focus on some of the recent progress in Wisconsin’s early learning and development landscape. In the midst of increasingly partisan battles at state and national levels, and after disappointing results in the state’s biennial budget, here are six encouraging trends.YoungStar: 65% of...
Needless to say, the initial roll out of the online application process for getting coverage through the new federal health insurance Marketplace has been very frustrating for people shopping for insurance and also for those of us who simply want to check it out. Although some of the state-operated insurance marketplaces seem to be...
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