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Help Reduce Child Poverty in Wisconsin

For children to grow up healthy and strong, we must provide them with proper nourishment: healthy meals, a doctor to visit when they’re sick, a quality child care center, strong schools, a safe home, and a just community. But not every child in Wisconsin is getting the nourishment they need, far too many kids are living in poverty. In...

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Advocates Disappointed in Changes to Long-term Care

Republican legislators voted today to revise or reject significant aspects of the Governor’s proposals to change community-based long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities. However, they left enough of the Governor’s ideas intact to alarm advocates and people who rely on the Family Care and IRIS programs. A guiding...

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A New Look at the Compelling Case against Leaving Medicaid Dollars on the Table

Recent Developments Bolster New “Top Ten” List of Reasons to Tap Wisconsin’s Share of Medicaid Funding    As new BadgerCare enrollment figures have become available and we've learned more about the state budget bill, it has become even more obvious that our state shouldn’t turn its back on the funding for Medicaid expansions that...

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New Enrollment Numbers Add Fuel to the Medicaid Expansion Debate

Surge in BadgerCare Enrollment of Childless Adults Strengthens the Case for Tapping Federal Funding  As new statistics come in, we can see that the second open enrollment period for the federal insurance Marketplace didn’t merely cause a big increase in Marketplace coverage, it also yielded a surge in BadgerCare enrollment. That’s music...

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