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Policymakers at state and national levels are taking on the childcare issue in a serious way, urged in no small part by the pressures the pandemic exposed for working parents and caregivers.
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YWCA Rock County is creating a comprehensive report on racism in the county using data and interviews to get a better understanding of local disparities in health care, education, child welfare and juvenile justice.
Amiee Leavy, the groupâs racial justice director, said the Race to Equity report will be shared at the virtual Racial Justice Conference on Nov. 4.
Leavy said she is responsible for the qualitative interviews while Kids Forward, a Madison-based group formerly known as the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, is handling the data side of the report.
Dane County had its own Race to Equity report come out in 2013. It documented substantial disparities in employment, poverty, education and more.
Governor uses local nonprofit Running Rebels as example of successful community alternatives to incarceration. By Graham Kilmer - Apr 14th, 2021 01:13 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Gov. Tony Evers speaks at a press conference April 13th, 2021. Photo by Graham Kilmer.
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Tony Evers visited Milwaukee Tuesday morning to promote a number of provisions in his biennial budget proposal that would change the way the state handles juvenile justice.
Evers held a press conference outside of the Running Rebels headquarters, 1300 W. Fond Du Lac Ave., a nonprofit that provides mentoring and programming to youth who have been involved in the juvenile justice system.
WUWM Gov. Tony Evers talks about juvenile justice reform outside the Running Rebels Community Organization office on April 13, 2021.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was in Milwaukee Tuesday, touting juvenile justice reforms in his budget proposal.
At the epicenter of the youth package is an item that would close the troubled Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile facilities in northern Wisconsin. Allegations of abuse between guards and inmates came to a head a few years ago when the federal government launched an investigation, and the ACLU sued the state over conditions at the centers. The Republican-controlled state Legislature eventually passed a law requiring the shuttering of the facilities, but the closure has been delayed.