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.
At the Start of the New Year, Minimum Wages Went up in 21 States. Wisconsin Wasn’t One of Them.
Low-paid workers across the country are getting raises because 21 states and 35 cities and counties increased their minimum wages around the beginning of the year. Those raises will lift workers out of poverty, help struggling families make ends meet, and make it...
