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"Recovery Act Provided $2 billion in Direct Benefits for State Residents,"
February 17, 2010. "Recovery Act Direct Assistance in Wisconsin – Estimates by County," February 18, 2010.
"WCCF Reaction to State of the State Address:
An Appropriate Focus on Jobs and Budget Crunch," January 27, 2010.
"Wisconsin Among Top States for Economic Recovery Act Website," January 26, 2010.
"WMC Comparison of Manufacturing Jobs to Public Jobs Perpetuates False Ideas on
Government Employment," December 22, 2009.
"Economic Recovery Act Keeping Roughly 86,000 Wisconsin Residents Out of Poverty in Recession, Act Has Boosted Economy, Saved and Created Jobs," December 17, 2009.
"Wisconsin Budget Project Analysis of New Census Data on State and Local Government Employment," November 3, 2009.
"New ARRA Data Represents Only a Small Fraction of Initial Spending,"
October 30, 2009.
"WCCF Comments on Final Action on 2009-11 Budget," June 30, 2009.
"WCCF Responds to Senate Budget Changes," June 18, 2009.
"WCCF Analyzes Impact of Joint Finance Budget on Children and Families,"
June 9, 2009.
"Proposed State Funding Cuts Threaten Wisconsin's Most Vulnerable: Cuts Would Impact Jobless Familes, People with Disabilities, Children and Seniors,"
May 19, 2009. Related document, "Employing a Balanced Approach to Balancing the State Budget" (statement of support listing supporting organizations).
"Budget Repair Bill Offers Sound, Balanced Approach to Revenue Challenges," February 19, 2009.
"WCCF Responds to Governor's Budget," February 18, 2009.
"WCCF Examines Implications of Economic Recovery Act for Wisconsin,"
February 17, 2009.
"Budget Repair Bll Takes Balanced Approach to Restoring Solvency,"
February 11, 2009.
"New Report Outlines Revenue Options for Addressing Budget Shortfall, Catalog of Tax Reform Options Covers Range of Alternatives to Damaging Cuts,"
November 13, 2008
"Census Bureau Issues New Figures on State and Local Finances: Wisconsin Spending and Taxes Drop Relative to Other States," May 28, 2008.
"WCCF Applauds Retention of Child Care Funding in Budget Repair,"
May 16, 2008.
"WCCF Applauds Inclusion of Child Care Funding in Repair Bill: Council Looks Forward to Discussion of Long-Term Solutions," May 12, 2008.
"WCCF Commends Leaders on Budget Compromise," October 24, 2007.
"WCCF Applauds Governor Doyle’s New Budget Proposal, Encourages Legislators to Vote for Passage," October 15, 2007
"WCCF Commends Progress on Budget," September 26, 2007.
"As State Budget Drags on 29 Organizations Rally Around Wisconsin Values: Need for Health Care, Child Care for Working Families, Local Government Services, Education Aids," July 26, 2007.
"Corrected and Expanded Summary of Key Changes in the Assembly Budget,"
July 11, 2007.
"Assembly Republican Budget Package Hurts Kids and Families, Across the Board Cuts to Education, Health Care, Working Family Support, Increase in Taxes for Low-Income Families," July 10, 2007.
"Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Holds State Budget Briefings:
Local Partners Join Child Advocates in Advance of Joint Committee on Finance Hearings," March 14, 2007.
"Wisconsin Hit Hard by the President's Proposed Budget: Cuts To Domestic Discretionary Programs Severe for Many Kids and Families," Bush Proposed Budget cuts Wisconsin $600 million over next 5 years--WCCF opposes, February 22, 2007.
"Governor's Budget Addresses Needs of Chldren and Families," February 14, 2007.
"Statement from Wisconsin Council on Children and Families on Governor Doyle's State of the State," January 31, 2007.
"Federal Bush Administration
Budget Would Inflict Increasing Pain in Wisconsin," February
23, 2006.
House Budget Would
Slash Wisconsin Child Support Collections, November 7, 2005
Wisconsin Council
on Children and Families Backs Governor's Restoration of School Funding
and Preservation of Health Care Coverage for Wisconsin's Kids, July
25, 2005.
State Budget Results for
Childen and Families, July 6, 2005.
Wisconsin Values Bring Together
People From Across the State, June 21, 2005.
Wisconsin
Values Press Event Advisory, June 17, 2005.
1 PM Key Delivery to Members of Joint
Committee on Finance, May 31, 2005.
TANF Omnibus Motion Creates Uncertainty
for Thousands of Low-Income Families and their Children, May 20, 2005.
Health
Care for WI Children/Tax Cuts for WI Working Families Hit Hard by Federal
Budget Cuts, March 30, 2005
2005-2007 Wisconsin State Budget Brown
Bag Lunch Series Announced, February 25, 2005
Wisconsin Would Lose Nearly $1.1
Billion from President's Proposed Budget, February 25, 2005
Wisconsin Council on Children and
Families Statement on Governor's 2005-2007 Budget Address, February
8, 2005
New WCCF Report, "Connecting the
Dots," shows link between federal policies and state fiscal strain,
October 6, 2004.
Without Congressional Action, 46,000
Wisconsinites Will Lose Unemployment Insurance Benefits, December
6, 2003; see also TEUC fact sheet
Doyle's Budget Veto Pen Helps Kids and Families, July 24, 2003
WCCF Roasts and Toasts 2003-2005 Biennial
Budget Passed by Legislature Today, June 24, 2003
Services to Children and Families
Will Suffer Under Joint Finance’s Education Financing and Property Tax
Freeze Plans, June 4, 2003
Proposed Property Tax Freeze Would Devastate
Local Human Services Systems, May 22, 2003
WCCF Responds Positively to Governor
Doyle's Budget, February 19, 2003
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