In an effort to protect critical food support for thousands of Wisconsinites, local nonprofit organizations are urging members of the Wisconsin State Legislature to fully and immediately support the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ (DHS) request for funding to pay for changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
For Release: July 1, 2025 Contact: Emily Miota, 262-853-6863 With just a few short weeks until critical child care funds dry up, Kids Forward is cautiously optimistic about the Republican Leadership and Governor Evers’ bipartisan budget deal that continues some public support for child care in the 2025-27 state budget. “Affordable and...
For Release: July 1, 2025 Contact: Emily Miota, 262-853-6863, [email protected] This morning the U.S. Senate passed a reckless budget bill that would make the deepest cuts in history to people's food assistance and health care, which includes BadgerCare, all to pay for extreme tax breaks for the nation’s wealthiest households and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2025From: Wisconsin Medicaid Coalition The U.S. Senate’s version of the budget reconciliation package took a bad bill and made it worse. The Senate package, passed this morning by a tiebreaker vote of 51-50, would cut almost $1 trillion from the Medicaid program over the next 10 years and result in close...
For Release: Monday, June 9, 2025Contact: Emily Miota, 262-853-6863, [email protected] Download as PDF State Decision Makers Can Make Targeted Investments in the State Budget to Address Them Yet again, Wisconsin leads the nation in many disparities in outcomes of Black and white children in our state, according to data in the Kids...
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