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1 in 5 Milwaukee retailers are selling cigarettes, cigarillos, and e-cigarettes, to minors.

This housing insecurity crisis can be prevented with swift and comprehensive intervention. We expect the need for housing assistance in the coming months to be two to four times what we experienced during The Great Recession years of 2008 to 2011. We urge the Legislature to pass a package of policies to help Wisconsinites avoid housing insecurity.

Tenants are encouraged to keep up with their rent payments and contact their landlords if they have trouble making ends meet due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Landlords are encouraged to keep in contact with their tenants to ensure their health, safety, and financial stability during the coronavirus pandemic.

Prescription medicines are now more frequently abused than cocaine, heroin, and meth combined. This fact sheet from MCSAP explains how you can keep your friends and family safe.

One in four tobacco retailers in the City of Milwaukee sold tobacco or nicotine products to underage youth during 2018 compliance checks, according to newly released data from Wisconsin Wins.

From Milwaukee Community Opioid Prevention Effort (COPE), this report tracks and analyzes opioid-related overdoses from January 1, 2012 to June 30, 2018.

From the Milwaukee Enrollment Network, using data prepared by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, this report collects and analyzes data on Medicaid and marketplace enrollment and the uninsured rate.

From the Department of Public Instruction, the Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is conducted as part of a national effort by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor health-risk behaviors of the nation's high school students. The behaviors monitored by the Wisconsin YRBS include traffic safety; weapons and violence; suicide; tobacco use; alcohol and other drug use; sexual behavior; and diet, nutrition, and exercise.

LGBTQ+ individuals are more likely to use tobacco products than the general population. Here's what you need to know.

Medicaid plays a vital role in providing access to treatment, and advancing recovery and independence for Wisconsin children and adults who live with a mental illness or a substance abuse disorder. From the Milwaukee Mental Health Task Force.

This June 2016 report is from Wisconsin State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Committee Marijuana Ad-hoc Committee.

From Youth First: Lessons learned from successful state campaigns to close youth prisons.

The 2015 Fall Insight highlights research on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and its positive effects on adults and children in poverty reduction, income, education, health, and community economic stability.

In this 2015 paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the authors examine the effect of the EITC on the employment and income of single mothers with children.