Posts tagged with Working Our Way Out of Poverty
May 21, 2018 | by Community Advocates Public Policy Institute | Events “Jobs are out there,” Shanesha Weddle says. “And employers are willing to work with you and give you a second chance. Imagine: They are accepting felons now. Remember 10, 15 years ago, you couldn’t work. I think it’s beautiful.”
October 6, 2017 | by Lisa Kaiser | Policy "I believe tax reform should reward the dignity of work, raise incomes for working families, let them keep more of what they earn, and help small businesses create jobs," said Senator Tammy Baldwin.
May 15, 2017 | by David Riemer | Policy To truly drive down unemployment from the real unemployment rate of 8.6% to a few percentage points, Transitional Jobs are essential.
May 2, 2017 | by Mike Bare | Policy Isn't this curious? At the same time that Congressional Republicans and President Trump were deriding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces for leading to less competition in the private health insurance market in many states, the board of Republican appointees who oversee the Wisconsin State Employee Health Plan (WSEHP) voted to purposely move from a highly competitive insurance market to a non-competitive self-insured model.
April 28, 2017 | by Mike Bare | Policy We sorted through the massive proposed two-year state budget and identified the major budget items of interest to PPI, and made recommendations on them.
July 19, 2016 | by Mike Bare | Policy Last week, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin introduced S. 3231, The Stronger Way Act. This bill is based on several years of the Public Policy Institute’s work on developing and testing policies that would dramatically reduce poverty. We encourage you contact your senators and member of Congress today to ask them to support The Stronger Way Act.
July 6, 2016 | by Becca Alt | Policy The dichotomy between using education as a means of eradicating poverty, on the one hand, and tackling poverty to close achievement gaps, on the other hand, is a false dichotomy. In order to close achievement gaps on a wide scale, we must implement policies to reduce poverty, and in order to reduce the disabling effects of poverty, we need to ensure that all children have access to high-quality educational environments at home and at school, from the cradle to graduation. We know that there are social, economic, and educational policies that have been proven to both decrease poverty and the effects poverty has on children’s academic success. Thus, the question is not how to close achievement gaps and stop the cycle of poverty, but rather, do we have the will to implement policies that we know will significantly improve outcomes for America’s most vulnerable?
April 21, 2016 | by Becca Alt | Policy Milwaukee County has had slower than average life expectancy growth for the poor since 2001 and reports much lower life expectancy rates for the poor than most of its neighboring counties (e.g. Ozaukee, Waukesha, Washington, and Jefferson).
March 17, 2016 | by Community Advocates Public Policy Institute | Policy The Brookings Institute recently released a paper titled “Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out Of High School,” a study of whether there is a causal relationship between low social mobility rates and high levels of income inequality. Policies that only try to address the symptoms of poverty—in this case higher dropout rates—are bandages for a grave condition requiring much more care.
December 1, 2015 | by Julie Kerksick | Policy I just listened to a great discussion about the importance of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in reducing poverty and improving educational and health outcomes for children and their parents. It's highlighting a fall 2015 issue of the journal Insight, co-sponsored by three grantmakers, titled “Two Generation Approaches to Poverty Reduction and the EITC.” This stuff matters a lot--and especially because the Earned Income Credit and Child Tax Credits are facing reductions in the next two years.
