Expenditure Trends: The Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program is on track to spend about $25 million less than budgeted in subsidy payments in the second year of the biennium ending June 30, 2013. The budget projection by the Department of Children and Families for Wisconsin Shares subsidy payments for SFY 2013 was $273.3 million....
Wisconsin should devote additional resources to collecting unpaid taxes that are owed to the
state. Increasing the amount of money and staff devoted to enforcing state tax laws would
increase the amount of revenue available to fund vital public services and also reduce the unfair burden on citizens who already pay the
taxes they legally owe.
For tax purposes, Wisconsin should treat profits from investments the same as income from
work. Currently, Wisconsin gives preferential treatment to profits from investments, which results in tax breaks for the best off. Most other states treat profits from investment the same as
income from work.
As passed by Congress, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) required states to begin in 2014 to offer Medicaid coverage to everyone below 138 percent of the poverty level (except for non-citizens who are undocumented or have not lawfully resided in the U.S. for at least five years). However, the U.S. Supreme Court’s July 2012 decision struck down the requirement, and that ruling makes those Medicaid provisions optional for the states.
Tuesday night, Governor Walker will give his State of the State address. The Governor is expected to use the address to talk about his vision of where Wisconsin stands, and to outline his priorities for the second half of his term.We hope Governor Walker will also use this opportunity to discuss the best ways to improve the well-being...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) gives Wisconsin an exciting opportunity to improve access to health care for a large segment of uninsured Wisconsinites.
There is a saying that goes something like “...there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come..,” and we can only hope that is true of the growing recognition that we can do better than treat kids as if they were adults. As bright as they can be, as articulate as they can be, as creative as they can be AND YET as impulsive...
Today, New Mexico joined ten other states in declaring that they plan to use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) opportunity to provide more coverage to their low-income residents under Medicaid. This makes New Mexico’s Governor Martinez the second Republican governor to do so. In mid-December, Nevada’s Governor Sandoval announcedthat he...
Good news can be a scarce commodity, so I tip my hat to Guy Boulton for his article in Tuesday’s Journal Sentinel, which reported that Wisconsin is one of the national leaders in providing dental sealants for kids: Wisconsin is among the five states in the country with the most extensive programs to place dental sealants - plastic...
Drop of Almost 5,000 Last Month is Second Largest in the Last Two Years BadgerCare enrollment fell by about 5,000 people in December, including about 1,760 children. I presume that the policy changes implemented in July account for some of drop, and perhaps most of it; however, the reduced participation among children – who aren’t...
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