BREAKING: Gov Evers Vetoes Seven Election Integrity Bills maciverinstitute.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from maciverinstitute.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Illinois and Minnesota Issued Timely UI Appeals Decisions 70% Of The Time, Wisconsin Only Reached 17.5%
14,500 Appeals Are Still Waiting For A Decision
By Lexi Dittrich
The Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) released a report last week revealing that the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is still mismanaging the state’s unemployment insurance (UI) program and they’re failing to meet the federally required deadline for making decisions on most of their appeals cases.
“We found that DWD did not comply with federal regulations to issue appeal decisions in a timely manner from June 2020 through May 2021,” LAB wrote. The federal government requires that at least 80% of states’ appeal decisions be made within 45 days of receiving the appeals requests. LAB found that only 17.5% of DWD’s appeals decisions made in May 2021 were made within 45 days of receiving the requests.
Barrett Proposes Equity-Driven Plan To Spend ARPA Funds In Milwaukee maciverinstitute.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from maciverinstitute.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Federal Government is $28 trillion in debt and unlikely to keep funding promises
$23 billion in ARPA, CARES Act and other federal COVID-19 aid negates need for more federal Medicaid reimbursement
Wisconsin’s current system has no waiting list, unlike other states
Wisconsin’s working poor can already find inexpensive private coverage on the federal exchange
Expansion in other states has not proven to save money, improve health outcomes, or improve healthcare access
By Lexi Dittrich
In the 2021-2023 state budget, Governor Tony Evers has once again proposed accepting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid Expansion plan being pushed by the Biden Administration. Under the Medicaid Expansion proposal, the federal government would temporarily increase their share of the cost of the behemoth state Medical Assistance (MA) plan if Wisconsin forces those who earn up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) off of the private health insurance exchange and onto MA. The Governor i
Latest BLS data shows Wisconsin, US union membership rates increased during pandemic year 2020
Wisconsin union members in 2020 made up more than 8.3% of the workforce for the first time since 2014
Despite losing 100,000 jobs during pandemic year 2020, Wisconsin union membership increased by 4.13% with 9,000 more union workers
A union member today is five times more likely to be a government employee than a private sector employee
By Lexi Dittrich
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently published its annual report on union membership in 2020. The data shows union membership rates increased slightly in 2020, but on the whole, union membership continues to decline in Wisconsin and in the United States.