As other states around the country in which the age of adult court jurisdiction is lower than 18 are changing, it is time for Wisconsin to use what we have learned over the past seventeen years about adolescent brain development, what works with youthful offenders, and what the research confirms - that we can keep the community safer...
The next meeting of the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) this week will be on Tuesday, May 21, starting at 10:00 in Room 412 E. The largest set of papers will concern the issues in the Department of Children and Families (DCF) budget, including Wisconsin Shares child care subsides, W-2, EITC funding, the Transform Milwaukee Jobs Program,...
Journal Sentinel Column Examines Black Male Incarceration and Ways to Tackle the Problem A column in Sunday’s Journal Sentinel provides a compelling description of the “mass incarceration” of African American males in Milwaukee County. If that term strikes you as hyperbole, I suspect you missed the alarming report issued a few weeks ago...
Men often have trouble choosing gifts for the women in their lives. I know that because I’ve made more than my fair share of questionable gift choices for Mother’s Days, birthdays and other occasions, and I have a recurring habitat of picking out presents that would be better gifts for me. Unfortunately, it’s no consolation to know that...
The YoungStar quality rating and improvement system is being rolled out, bringing greater focus to the quality of services for children from low-income families supported by Wisconsin Shares child care subsidies.
Revived Proposals Could Also Impede ACA Implementation by Using Inconsistent Income Measures After a period of hibernation, THEY have re-emerged, and I’m not talking about the 17-year cicadas or a new wave of zombie movies. These changes have gotten less attention than the potential cicada eruption, but they could be much more damaging...
Almost no attention has been paid to provisions in the Governor’s proposed 2013-15 budget that could cause at least 29,000 children to lose their BadgerCare coverage, and many more to lose benefits.
Benefits Could Drop Dramatically in 2014 if Conservative Lawmakers Prevail For some Wisconsinites there is a silver lining in the state’s increased unemployment rate over the last several months. Now that the rate has been at 7% or higher for three straight months, jobless workers in Wisconsin may qualify for a longer period of...
Wisconsin was ranked as one of the top ten states for licensing program requirements and oversight of child care centers in a 2013 report from Child Care Aware of America, We Can Do Better: Child Care Aware of America's Ranking of State Child Care Center Regulations and Oversight. Wisconsin was ranked 4th in program requirements and...
A couple of articles Monday reported on the latest Republican legislators who have expressed reservations about the Governor’s proposal to remove close to 100,000 people from BadgerCare in January 2014. Several more GOP legislators have indicated interest in a compromise suggested by the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) to delay the...
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