Child Safety

All kids deserve a safe and nurturing upbringing at home and in their community.

Several Proposed Study Committees Would Tackle Children’s Issues

In the interim period between biennial sessions, the Legislative Council creates various special committees – comprised of legislators and public members – to study a broad range of issues and develop policy recommendations. This week the Legislative Council co-chairs released a list of the special committees that they proposed to...

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Widening Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates

As we noted in Monday’s blog post, April is Minority Health Month, so we took the occasion to discuss racial disparities in health – particularly with respect to infant mortality rates. An April 24th  article in the Journal Sentinel by Crocker Stephenson sheds new light on the extent of the problem in Milwaukee. The article reports that...

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Impact of the Foreclosure Crisis on Kids

It’s long been known that living in an unstable housing situation puts kids at higher risk of all sorts of negative outcomes. They are more likely to have problems in school, health problems, social problems….the list goes on and on. So given the huge number of home foreclosures over the past few years, it seems important to consider...

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The Case against Using Mortgage Settlement Funds to Reduce the State Deficit

Journal Sentinel and NY Times Editorials Argue against Diverting the Settlement FundingBoth the New York Times and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorialized over the weekend against the use of the new mortgage settlement dollars to help close state deficits. As the Journal Sentinel wrote: “With so many families in Milwaukee - and...

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