New this morning stunning numbers just released giving a better look at families dealing with financial struggles in wisconsin. In fact this reports Shows Nearly Half of all wisconsin families are struggling to make ends meet. Ann sterling is live in oak creek to explain. United way of wisconsin just released this report. It reveals that 42 percent of families here in wisconsin earn below what is known as an alice threshold. This report is long but i went through it to give you this break down. First off lets define an alice household. It is a working household they hold jobs and pay taxes positions include retailsales People Office clerks laborers and movers and Customer Service reps. The core issue is that these jobs do not pay enough for the basics transportation, and health carebottom line according to this report many households earning . . More than the federal Poverty Level stilldo not earn enough to afford the basics. In wisconsin, there are nearly 671 thousand alice households
Of local roads. In waukesha. Pz. Tmj4 organizers say the information gathered at todays discussion will be used to craft proposals for how to better improve local, public transit. The city and the county of milwaukee face costly upgrades for aging streets and bridges. A new report by local Research Group Public Policy forum shows more than half of city streets are rated in poor or fair condition. The city anticipates spending 76 milliondollars a year to keep repairs over the next four years. The county expects to spend about 11million a year for highways and streets arent the only concern for local officials. According to the report nearly athird of the countys 436 bus fleet should be replaced. Each one costs about 475thousand dollars. A chance tonight to ride along the future milwaukee streetcar route. Bublr bikes and the wisconsin bike fed are leading a group ride starting at 530. The ride begins at burns streetcar route and ends at newaukees night market on wisconsin avenue. Organiz
Where as Pete Zervakis reports improvements were called for. Participants at todays forum believe connecting people with Public Transportation is more important now than ever. We know the Transportation System isnt serving everyone organizers of this talk on transportation say thats because some cant afford cars. While others are elderly. And cant get to bus stations. Nats bus county executive paul farrow says the population continues to get older. The demographics of our population changing many seniors rely on volunteer ride programs run by local organizations. But farrow says the elderly are spread out around the county. Around the county. So more such taxis. Or buses. Wouldnt help all of them. Weve got to try to figure out how were going to solve the problem when we dont have that dense pack of people somewhere, where a bus would be effectivehe thinks one way to improve transportation for seniors is collaboration with milwaukee with Milwaukee County. Where medical appointments. Pet
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