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Hearings held only in state’s smaller cities but Evers budget favored 284 to 30 by speakers. //end headline wrapper ?>Map of the four Joint Finance Committee hearings on the 2021-2023 budget
Thinking back on the three in-person budget public hearings the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC) has held in this month, Rep.
Greta Neubauer (D-Racine) says the most frequent testimony she recalls hearing was widespread support for public education.
“I believe the most comments were on the topic of public education childcare, K-12, higher ed, technical colleges and the UW System included in that,” says Neubauer, one of two Assembly Democrats who sits on the JFC. “It was incredible to see how many folks came out, took the time to drive, oftentimes far distances.”
Evers vetoed GOP bills that would take control of federal relief funds. //end headline wrapper ?>Waitress. (Pixabay License)
Wisconsin small businesses will share in $420 million in grants to bolster them as they recover from losses brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic under a program that Gov.
The funds in grants of $5,000 each to as many as 84,000 businesses in the state will come from Wisconsin’s allotment from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) enacted in March.
The grants will be focused on businesses in industries that were most affected by the pandemic and administered by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) in consultation with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC).
Evers budget includes major reforms and legalizing medical and recreational marijuana. By Graham Kilmer - Apr 17th, 2021 03:57 pm //end headline wrapper ?>A joint. (Pixabay License).
Governor
Tony Evers sat down with advocates and two elected officials Friday for a roundtable on criminal justice reform in Wisconsin.
Evers has been working to make the case for his biennial budget proposal, which he’s calling the “Badger Bounce Back.” Earlier in the week he visited Milwaukee to stump for the provisions that would help reform the state’s juvenile justice system.
During a virtual discussion, he made the case for those budget provisions affecting the Department of Corrections and the state’s justice system to a receptive audience of criminal justice advocates and Lt. Governor
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A state agencyâs new probe into homelessness shows that in Rock County, tenants facing eviction are nearly twice as likely to be expelled from their homes by court order than elsewhere in Wisconsin.
Thatâs just one eye-opening slice of data that shows how housing stabilityâand prospects for those who have fallen behind on their rentâarenât necessarily on a level playing field throughout Wisconsin.
On Thursday, Michael Basford, the director of the Wisconsin Department of Administrationâs Interagency Council on Homelessness rolled out new data from a program Gov. Tony Evers launched to track monthly tenant evictions in every Wisconsin county.