Economic stability is one of the more important determinants of a child’s well-being. We believe making sure families have the supports they need to work for livable wages and climb out of poverty is one of the biggest keys to improving the lives of children.
Did you know that in Wisconsin there are an estimated 55,000 young adults, age 20-24, who are neither employed nor enrolled in school? These “disconnected youth” are part of 6.5 million US teens and young adults who are not finding their way into the workforce in ways that we once took for granted. Today, the Annie C. Casey Foundation...
In case you missed it, there was some good news from Milwaukee on Friday – regarding that city’s teen birth rate. City health officials reported that the rate of births to teens ages 15 through 17 in Milwaukee dropped in 2011 for the fifth straight year, and it has declined 36% since 2006.The following chart, which is from the Journal...
Wisconsin got some mixed news on jobs this week. The good news is that the newly released federal figures confirm the Walker Administration’s contention that there was net growth of more than 37,000 private sector jobs over the 12-month period from April 2011 through March of this year. The bad news is that those Bureau of Labor...
Many children and families in Wisconsin are still feeling the effects of the recession, and it may be some time before poverty rates fall to their pre-recession levels. That's the picture painted by new poverty and income figures for 2011 that were released by the Census Bureau in September. The new figures also show that significant...
Modest Improvements in Poverty and Insurance Coverage, but Many Wisconsinites Are Still Feeling Effects of the RecessionThe Wisconsin economy has been slowly recovering from the Great Recession for a couple of years now, and small signs of that recovery can be seen in the newly released census data for 2011. But the new figures from...
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