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State Lawmakers Must Protect Workers and Families as Wisconsin Reopens
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2020 CONTACT: Ken Taylor, Executive [email protected], 608.206.5237William Parke-Sutherland, Health Policy Engagement [email protected], 608.284-0580 x317 PDF Version MADISON, WI – More than...
The Work of Undocumented Immigrants Supports the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. So Why Are They Barred from Receiving Benefits?
Undocumented immigrants have played a part in depositing over a hundred million dollars in Wisconsin’s Unemployment Insurance trust fund over the past decade, yet the federal government excludes them from collecting unemployment benefits paid for from the fund. This...
People in Wisconsin Won’t Count if we Don’t Count All People in Wisconsin
Wisconsinites have experienced years of redistricting, maps analyzed in private meetings, and fingers pointed over gerrymandering. All of this leaves a bad taste over how some Wisconsinites are represented in our government. While the federal courts have delayed the...
Achieving Equity in Early Learning
In order to know where we need to go to achieve equity in early learning, we need to know where we’ve been. Using data from 2016, Kids Forward has created a baseline report as a point of departure. The findings in this report will be updated to see where we have gone...
Achieving Equity in Early Learning: A Baseline Report on Race and Ethnicity in Wisconsin Shares, YoungStar and Four-Year-Old Kindergarten
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Trump Administration Still Suing to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
Despite once-in-a-generation challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration and 18 states are still asking the US Supreme Court to rule that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional and entirely repeal the decade old health law. Kids...
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