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.
The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to meet twice next week --Tuesday, May 24th and Thursday, May 26th. Both executive sessions are supposed to begin at 11 AM in Room 412 East in the State Capitol. On Tuesday, the committee is scheduled to vote on issues related to the Department of Health Services (including Medicaid-related...
WCCF, in collaboration with Citizen Action of WI, the Institute for Wisconsin’s Future, and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, has unveiled the Wisconsin Values Budget, an alternative to the Walker budget proposal based on a balanced approach to the state’s fiscal challenges. The Values Budget rejects the notion that the state has “no...
School districts are slated to take significant cuts in state aid in the 2011-13 biennial budget. In addition, the proposed budget would require most school districts to reduce the amount of property tax revenue they raise within their districts.The Wisconsin Budget Project devoted two blog posts this week (here and here) to a new...
The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) has scheduled two executive sessions on the budget bill next week – Wed. May 18 and Thurs. May 19. Both meetings will begin at 11 AM in the JFC meeting room -- 412 East, State Capitol. The agenda Wednesday includes four papers relating to DHS issues, and 8 papers concerning the Department of Children...
This two-page brief analyzes the effects of not adjusting the credit for inflation between 1990 until 2010.
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