Moving Forward into a New Year
by Jill Jacklitz
The New Year represents an opportunity for evaluation, adjustment and renewal. In her column, Jill discusses our process of developing a new policy agenda, and encourages readers to review and react to it.
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Corporate Tax Avoidance: Getting Big Biz to Pony Up Its Fair Share
by Dennis Collier
In recent years, large corporations have become increasingly aggressive in their tactics to avoid paying state taxes on their earnings. Combined reporting is among the strategies Wisconsin should consider to make sure big companies contribute their fair share of state revenue.
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Penfield Children's Center and the Legacy of Jim Ryan
by Dave Edie
Jim Ryan was a leader and innovator in Milwaukee's early childhood community. He passed away in November of 2007. This article celebrates Jim's achievements at Penfield and honors his years of important work for children and families in Wisconsin.
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Raising the Age of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction: A Legislative Update
by Wendy Paget Henderson
WCCF has been a leading voice in the movement to return 17-year-olds to the juvenile justice system in Wisconsin. The recently introduced Senate Bill 401 would accomplish this important policy change. The Council will be working hard in coming months to promote passage of the bill.
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Moving Beyond Turkey: WCCF Encourages Friends to Take Their Advocacy to the Next Level
by Vicky Selkowe
Advocacy comes in many shapes and sizes. This year, WCCF is challenging advocates across Wisconsin to take a step forward in their advocacy by committing a portion of their efforts to policy solutions--as opposed to focusing entirely on helping individual families--to poverty and other problems confronting our state's children and families.
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On the ground with...
Reggie Bicha, Administrator, Department of Health and Families Services Division of Children and Family Services, and Secretary Designate of the newly created Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
interview by Bob Jacobson
In this interview, Reggie Bicha, tapped by Gov. Doyle to head the new Department of Children and Families, outlines some of his ideas on how to approach the monumental task of consolidating into a new start-up bureaucracy a variety of programs and systems that serve the states kids and their families.
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Did you know that you can access all sorts of useful data about the well-being of Wisconsin's children and families via the WisKids Count portion of our website? There are a lot of tools available for county-by-county comparisons and generating tables, charts, etc. Check it out.

And did you know that WCCF publishes e-newsletters on a variety of specific issues, including health care, early education, economic support, juvenile justice and other youth issues, and budget and tax matters? Well, we do. If you are interested in any of these issues, please consider signing up for one or more of these email bulletins. You can also sign up via that page for action alerts and for one or more of our campaigns. Once you see the impressive volume of work we are doing on the issues that matter to you, you will no doubt feel moved to help support this work by making a donation to WCCF.