The Recession's Impact on Wisconsin Counties: Unemployment and Poverty Rates Are Up, Health Insurance was Down in 2009 (November 2010). WCCF analyzed and charted the relevant Census Bureau data for 23 Wisconsin counties, and found that Wisconsin residents are feeling the impact of the national recession, as steep job loss has pushed many residents into poverty and forced the loss of health insurance coverage. BadgerCare Plus has been critically important for families who have lost their jobs and their private health insurance during the recession. See county data and interactive charts here.
Wisconsin’s Children Gaining Ground in Some Respects, Losing in Others - State’s Overall Kids Count Ranking of 10th Unchanged from 2009 (July 27, 2010). Since 2000, Wisconsin has improved on five of the 10 key measures of child well-being included in the 2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book, a state-by-state analysis published each year by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Read the report and press release. View the Wisconsin fact sheet.
The Half in 10 Campaign explains how the supplemental federal poverty measure would work (March 3, 2010). Check it out.
Statistics released last fall by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that in 2008, nearly one in five children under the age of 18 lived in poverty. Experts acknowledge that this statistic does not capture the full impact of the economic downturn, which will drive 2009 poverty numbers even higher. See "The Effects of the Recession on Child Poverty," (December 2009).
Just Released from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), a new report, setting out seven strategies deemed essential for the nation to meet President Obama's goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015. Read the report...
National Center on Family Homelessness releases America’s Youngest Outcasts, a 50 State Report on Homeless Children.See how Wisconsin fares...
The Stimulus and Poverty: Will the Federal Stimulus Bill Protect Public Education from Spending Cuts? A Commentary by Andrew Reschovsky, Professor of Public Affairs and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read this Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity article...
New Fact Sheet from the National Center on Children in Poverty. Measuring Poverty in the United Statesdiscusses how the U.S. government measures poverty, why the current measure is inadequate, and what alternative ways exist to measure economic hardship.
New from the National Center on Children in Poverty – Measuring Poverty in the United States. This fact sheet discusses how the U.S. government measures poverty, why the current measure is inadequate, and what alternative ways exist to measure economic hardship.
New government research has found “large and growing” disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades. See March 23rd New York Times article, "Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for the Nation."
Poverty Is Poison. To be poor in America today, even more than in the past, is to be an outcast in your own country. And that, the neuroscientists tell us, is what poisons a child’s brain. The New York Times, op-ed by columnist Paul Krugman (February 18, 2008).
"Child Poverty High in Rural America," new report by the Carsey Institute shows Child Poverty in Rural Wisconsin rose considerably between 2000 and 2006.
