A very touchy debate but one, which needs everyone's input. How has this ordeal affected you or your town directly or indirectly? Do you feel the local, state and national levels are doing enough to help the struggling families? Who is to blame, some examples may be the outsourcing of jobs, hiring of foreigners, computer technology? Whatever sincere words or advice will be appreciated about Wisconsin’s Poverty.
Picture of a stuggling mother of seven during the Great Depression, but frankly this is the expression I see way too often an unknown future. :cry:
Aug. 26, 2004
Milwuakee Journal Sentinel
By TOM HELD and LEONARD SYKES
Hunger is a real problem for Wisconsin families. Statewide, more than 60,000 Wisconsin residents joined the ranks of people living in poverty in 2003, pushing the number of poor in the state to a 10-year high and continuing a worrisome trend, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates back in 2003.
An additional 8,000 children were among those found to be struggling to meet basic needs, bringing the total estimated number of Wisconsin children in poverty to 187,000, the bureau found in its 2003 report.
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"The story is simply that the first few years of the 21st century have been tough ones for children and families in Wisconsin," said Bob Jacobson, spokesman for the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. "We saw increases in poverty, decreases in employment and a marked increase in the number of uninsured people, which is fairly alarming."
The census survey found 593,000 residents of Wisconsin fending without insurance last year, a 46% increase over 2000. And the percentage of residents without insurance has grown steadily since then, to 10.9% in 2003.
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The state of WORKING Wisconsin 2006
http://www.cows.org/soww/pdf/rp-soww-06.pdf
Hunger Close to Home.
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/demograp.../Manitowoc.pdf
Center of Wisconsin Strategy
http://www.cows.org/
