The state budget and the taxes that help finance it have a huge impact on children and families. The budget provides most of the funding for vital government services, such as education, health care, transportation, child welfare and other safety net programs.
For more detailed analysis, visit the Wisconsin Budget Project website.
Annualized Effect Expected to be $71.9 Million Loss of Federal Benefits and $26 Million GPR Cost for StateThe crowded agenda for the Joint Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday, May 21, includes the Governor’s proposal to impose a work or training requirement for many of the participants in the Food Share program. The Legislative Fiscal...
LFB Papers Reinforce Our Concerns about W-2 Shortfall and EITC Shell GameAccording to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB), if the growth in W-2 participation in recent months is followed by a slightly slower rate of decline than the budget bill assumes, W-2 spending could exceed the reduced level recommend by the Governor by $30 million...
The next meeting of the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) this week will be on Tuesday, May 21, starting at 10:00 in Room 412 E. The largest set of papers will concern the issues in the Department of Children and Families (DCF) budget, including Wisconsin Shares child care subsides, W-2, EITC funding, the Transform Milwaukee Jobs Program,...
A couple of articles Monday reported on the latest Republican legislators who have expressed reservations about the Governor’s proposal to remove close to 100,000 people from BadgerCare in January 2014. Several more GOP legislators have indicated interest in a compromise suggested by the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) to delay the...
As the recent failure of the Senate to pass even the most basic gun regulations on background checks shows, the rhetoric and responses to the tragedy at Sandy Hook and other incidents remains polarized. Concerned that the "easy way out" is to put more armed security in schools, many advocacy groups have begun to speak out with notes of...
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