Browsing: Safety Net

The Badger Institute hosted a roundtable discussion on work, poverty and the use of federal safety nets to promote self-reliance.

Angela Rachidi, resident scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Eloise Anderson, former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and a Badger Institute visiting fellow, discuss safety net programs and work in Wisconsin. Rachidi is author of the January 2020 Badger Institute report “Wisconsin’s missing rung: Policies linked to work are critical to lifting people out of poverty.”

Policies linked to work are critical to lifting people out of poverty

State government needn’t have a hand in retirement-savings fix; private-sector options already proliferate

The 2018 Farm Bill failed to address a key loophole in the country’s main food assistance program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — a loophole that states have increasingly used over the past decade to expand SNAP income eligibility beyond the intent of the law. In July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Milwaukee JobsWork pursues a multi-level business strategy based on the conviction that sustainable employment leads to self-sufficiency and local business growth is necessary for expanded opportunities.

The Dane County Child Support Agency will be rolling out a pilot program called the Forgiveness of Arrears for Completion of Education.

Poor blacks have been the victims of a cruel bait-and-switch game, where the demographics of all blacks were used as…

In 2012, Democratic candidates successfully sold the narrative that Republicans were waging a war against American women. Consequently, exit polls found a significant gender gap.

The headline in late October was a shocker: “Wisconsin business taxes rank 43rd”  — seventh worst in the country.

Recently I celebrated Father’s Day with my wife and two small children. A day specifically to celebrate what we bring to the table as men and fathers is a wonderful gift.

Milwaukee and some of its unheralded community groups and violence-fighting programs hold “the key to changing this country,” according to Robert Woodson Sr., one of America’s most influential and outspoken voices on welfare myths and finding new ways to combat poverty.  

When I received the call from one of Rep. Paul Ryan’s aides just six weeks before the close of the…

To the age-old childhood lament that the pizza at school is grease-laden, the cheese like rubber and the insides of…

By Mike Nichols Peggy Sullivan was given a government-issued debit card to buy groceries in Wisconsin at the same time…

Dispatch: Gubernatorial Politics Doyle fires warning shot at Walker.By Aaron Rodriguez With the 2010 election season approaching, Gov. Jim Doyle…

When then Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson introduced the Wisconsin Works (W-2) proposal in November of 1994, he cited this principle…

Work matters most

We know that in 1990 there were over 96,000 women on AFDC in Wisconsin. Today, there are less than 8,000.

It is no wonder that the national debate in the early 1990s over universal health insurance was so acrimonious and…