Effects of the Budget Bills on Working Families

by Kids Forward | March 17, 2011

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Wisconsin Council on Children and Families has released a two-page summary that describes the negative impact the state budget would have on working families. With cuts to education, health care, mass transportation, and important anti-poverty initiatives, the budget repair bill and the biennial budget proposal hits middle- and low-income Wisconsinites the hardest. Get a fuller picture by reading the summary here.

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