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.
Since the recession, Wisconsin household income has plummeted, according to new figures released yesterday by the Census Bureau. Between 2006 and 2010, median household income in Wisconsin dropped by about $3,600, or 7 percent.In yesterday’s blog post, we discussed how child poverty rose faster in Wisconsin than it did nationally. The...
The number of children living in poverty rose dramatically in Wisconsin in 2010, according to new figures released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2010, a quarter of a million Wisconsin children lived below the poverty line, about 36,000 more than in 2009. Unfortunately, the increase in child poverty in Wisconsin is nothing new....
Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data from its Current Population Survey (CPS) on poverty, household income, and health insurance coverage. Nationally, more people are living in poverty--46.2 million in 2010--than at any other time since the federal government began estimating poverty 52 years ago. The national poverty rate jumped...
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) has released a report called The State of Working Wisconsin -- Update 2011, which examines the increased rates of unemployment and underemployment in Wisconsin and the disparate impact those problems on particular sectors of the workforce. Read more in the Wisconsin Budget Project’s Labor Day blog...
The paychecks that public employees get today will be quite a bit smaller than the ones they’ve gotten in the past. That’s because this is the first paycheck that takes into account a provision in the budget repair bill that requires public employees to pay more for their fringe benefits.Beginning teachers, janitors, workers in school,...
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