Tag: Wisconsin State Budget

Gov. Tony Evers has proposed his new biennial budget and contained within said budget is a provision that would roll back much of the anti-worker Act 10 that was enacted by former Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican cronies in the legislature. In one of his boldest moves, Evers called…

It has been somewhere between 180 and 200 days since the Wisconsin Legislature has met and taken any kind of action…and we are knee deep in a pandemic and sinking. So it is abundantly clear that Wisconsin doesn’t need a full time legislature. And since the institution of the biennial…

The GOP dominated Wisconsin legislature passed a number of bills this past week that tightened the availability of abortions in the state. Nothing as restrictive as those in Georgia or Alabama but obviously moving in that direction. But if you are already among the living in Wisconsin and in need…well…

With the economy booming: The state is expected to take in $753 million more through the summer of 2021 than earlier estimated, giving lawmakers a small windfall as they work on the state budget. Well…first of all…these are always estimates based on current trends. So really…there is no guarantee this will…

Today’s headline: Robots put Wisconsin jobs at risk. So if this isn’t a call to action on additional spending on education and demands for better outcomes…not much else is. A potent new wave of automation technologies is widely forecast to eliminate millions of American jobs in the coming years, and Wisconsin…

In the weirdest timeline of events in Madison so far in the current environment of a Democratic governor and a Republican legislature, the Republicans totally refused to endorse any part of the governor’s plan for state building projects…despite their support for a number of them…including the Lincoln Hills replacement that…

The Wisconsin GOP cabal that was former Governor Scott Walker plus the continuing Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald kept kicking the can down the road on funding for highway repairs and construction. In their last two budgets, hewing to their no tax increase mantras, instead…

During the interview that provided the articles around the state outlining the Republican plan to undermine the state’s electorate and newly elected governor by keeping the governor out of the budget process…Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald let out a sigh and quick inhale about Medicaid expansion for Wisconsin. It caught…

In a piece at Urban Milwaukee, Steve Walter posits 12 Key State Budget Decisions with brief descriptions from Governor Walker’s 2017-2019 biennial Wisconsin budget and asks if we are for or against. I will take a stab at each one…one at a time: 4.Self-insure for health care: Beginning Jan. 1,…

In a piece at Urban Milwaukee, Steve Walters posits 12 Key State Budget Decisions with brief descriptions from Governor Walker’s 2017-2019 biennial Wisconsin budget and asks if we are for or against. I will take a stab at each one…one at a time: 2.UW tuition freeze: Should a four-year freeze…