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.
When we give thanks on Thursday, let’s remember that there are many public programs providing critically important assistance to people who aren’t as fortunate. Among them are a number of government programs that are working as intended to keep low-wage Americans and unemployed workers out of poverty. Unfortunately, some of those...
Earlier this month the Census Bureau released a new way of measuring poverty: the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). This measure revealed higher rates of poverty nationally for most groups, but a lower rate for children. The Census Bureau also released an analysis of those with incomes slightly above the poverty line which illustrates...
The US Census Bureau released a report late last week regarding the number and percentage of households in each state who received food stamps in 2009 and 2010. Wisconsin’s participation rate of 11.0 percent last year was well below the national rate of 11.9 percent. However, Wisconsin has been rapidly gaining ground on the national...
Federal and state officials announced at a press conference Monday (Nov.7) that Wisconsin will be one of six states taking part in a new federal pilot program to expedite the approval of affordable housing projects. Developers of federally subsidized multifamily housing complexes typically rely on multiple sources of state and federal...
The number of Wisconsinites living in poverty jumped significantly between 2008 and 2010, new figures from the Census Bureau show. Between those years, the poverty rate in Wisconsin increased from 10 percent to 13 percent, and an additional 163,000 Wisconsinites slid into poverty. To put that number in perspective, the number of...
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