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.
Yesterday, the Wisconsin Medical Journal (WMJ), a publication of the Wisconsin Medical Society, published a new study showing that exposure to secondhand smoke has decreased both inside and outside of homes in Wisconsin since the statewide smoke-free law went into effect in July 2010. This news was celebrated by many of our partners in...
House Plans Would Cut Even More than the Anticipated $6.5 Billion in FY 2013The broad federal budget cuts known as sequestration will begin in January to make deep cuts in federal funding for services to kids. A new two-page fact sheet by First Focus summarizes the expected $6.5 billion of cuts to programs affecting children. The...
The Division of Juvenile Corrections (DJC) has released a report in response to 2011 Act 32 in which they were directed to gather information about juvenile justice expenditures and services throughout Wisconsin, including both expenditures by the DJC as well as by counties, related to intervening in juvenile crime.Variations in how...
Like other states, Wisconsin has seen significant declines in juvenile crime over the past decade or more, as measured by the number of youth arrested, the number of delinquency charges filed in court, and the number of youth placed in institutions. WCCF previously documented these changes in a Fall 2011 report, “The State of Juvenile...
Protecting maltreated children is one of the most important functions of state government as these children are among the most vulnerable among us. Thus, it is good news that compared to many areas of child and family programming, child welfare is doing relatively well. This is for two main reasons:First, in a budget where there were...
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