For more than 130 years, the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families has been working to ensure that all children grow up in a just and nurturing family and community. No matter the year, the political climate or the state of our economy, WCCF has always put children first. While we may not directly feed, provide child care or house...

Teen birthrates have been dropping in Milwaukee, and abortion rates have also been decreasing statewide. These two positive outcomes point to policies that have increased adolescents’ awareness about how to prevent unplanned pregnancies and increased access to contraception and reproductive healthcare through BadgerCare’s Family...

The Governor has signed the 2011-13 biennial budget after making some minor vetoes, and the Wisconsin Budget Project has updated – probably for the final time – the comparative budget summary in order to reflect those vetoes.The comparison shows how selected provisions were modified in the budget process, as well as the fiscal effect of...

According to the newest Wisconsin Budget Project blog post, the Joint Finance Committee seemed geniunely committed to addressing the structural deficit (at least on the spending side), until it created a last-minute tax break for manufacturers. This move will nearly eliminates the income tax for many corporations that produce goods in...

The Wisconsin Budget Project has a blog post with a checklist of questions we should ask ourselves before we move to privatize government functions. Here's an excerpt from the post:Governor Walker has proposed a number of initiatives to privatize government functions or to make it easier to do so. One of those proposals, privatization...