One of the critical elements of a strong DMC initiative is ensuring that information about disparities is avaialable. The Haywood Burns Institute, the leading resource on reducing DMC, has just created and made available an interactive state-by-state map that displays critical DMC data – at this point the site relies on data reported by the core DMC reduction sites (Rock, Dane, Milwaukee, Brown, Kenosha, and Racine counties) through 2007. The creative construction of the site allows you to access raw data related to the various system decision-making points as well as utilizing concepts from the relative rate index to track each point relative to the preceding one.
The State Budget is an Opportunity to Reduce Income Inequality
Whether Black, Brown, or white, rural or city, we all can thrive when state leaders invest in our children, families, and communities. Tax cuts for the rich are not the path to prosperity and will only make income inequality in Wisconsin worse.