Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union just released an extensive report, Growing Up Locked Down – Youth in Solitary Confinement in Jails and Prisons across the United States, provides further evidence about the misfit of holding youth in adult facilities. While not all youth end up in solitary confinement while in an...
The evidence is clear – frequent school suspensions place youth at greater risk of a host of “rotten outcomes”, not the least of which is involvement in the juvenile or criminal justice system. Noting that this is a nationwide problem, Senator Dick Durbin held a hearing last Wednesday of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the...
After Pause in October, Plunge in Enrollment Resumes BadgerCare enrollment fell by about 3,470 people in November, as the policy changes implemented in July continue to cause people to lose their BadgerCare coverage. In the first five months after those changes were initiated, BadgerCare enrollment has decreased by more than 18,500...
The so-called “fiscal cliff” could affect Wisconsinites in innumerable ways. For many of us the immediate effects will be relatively minor, whereas for others – particularly jobless workers who are receiving federal unemployment benefits – there will be an abrupt and very damaging termination of a critical lifeline.Over the past week...
Pressure to direct government funding toward smart, effective initiatives may be why a new type of bond, social impact bonds, are becoming financing options for social programs. Early initiatives using social impact bonds – essentially borrowing funds to pay for savings later – have been used in other areas, but now may be making their...
On Monday, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQ) document about provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) related to Exchanges, market reforms, and Medicaid. It is a fairly lengthy document (with 40 questions and responses), but it’s considerably easier reading than the...
Today is Human Rights Day, perhaps a good day to reflect on the fact that the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Fortunately, more and more conservatives are discovering what progressives (and by the way what juvenile justice advocates have known for along time), that investing in “get tough on crime”...
New research led by Joseph P. Ryan at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through its Models for Change initiative, affirms (not surprisingly) that the likelihood of future delinquency involvement is higher for youth who were referred to the child protective...
Drop of 431,000 Wisconsinites with Employer Coverage Highlights Importance of New Opportunities for Improving Access to Care In 2011, the percentage of non-elderly Americans covered by employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) declined for the eleventh year in a row, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Economic Policy...
Study Concludes It Would Yield 24,000 Missouri Jobs Like many other states, Missouri has begun considering whether to use the option provided by the federal health care reform law to provide access to Medicaid to adults below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). As we noted in a recent blog post, a study committee in the very...
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