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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…

School meal programs are larded with middle-income families that are, in Wisconsin alone, siphoning untold tens of millions of dollars away from ever-larger federal appropriations meant to help impoverished families.

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…

The Wisconsin Works (W-2) program has garnered substantial attention for revolutionizing expectations about the obligations of public assistance recipients. Less…

By Lawrence Mead, Ph.D. Between 1987, when Tommy Thompson took office as governor, and 1994, Wisconsin cut its welfare caseload…

Welfare reform in Wisconsin

Sammis White, Ph.D. The consensus in Wisconsin and the nation is that the current welfare system must be changed. Welfare today neither raises the poor out of poverty nor does it make them any less dependent.  A new approach to welfare must be employed –  one that both reduces poverty and moves recipients, as responsible

By John Wagner The State of Wisconsin has approved a significant expansion of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). Supporters…

By Daniel Alesch, Ph.D. This is a case study of privatized general relief administration. The privatization program, which may be…

The migration impact of Wisconsin’s AFDC benefit levels: a re-examination