Quick Links to Wisconsin Public Interest Law Publications
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A Thinking Guide to Inclusive Child Care
This 51 page pdf file format was written in February 2008 by Mark Sweet, PhD and posted by Disability Rights Wisconsin, Inc.,
an advocacy public interest law firm in Wisconsin concentrating on the rights of disabled persons.
For Related information on 2007 Changes in Child Care Record Keeping Rules
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Legal Action of Wisconsin Report on Milwaukee's Housing Crisis: Foreclosures, Evictions, and Subprime Lending
This 33 page pdf file was written in July 2007 by John Pawsarat and Lois Quinn of the Employment and Training Institute,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and posted by Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc., a public interest law firm representing concentrating on
representing low-income clients in Wisconsin.
Legal Action of Wisconsin Report on Mortgage Lending Practices in Milwaukee County, Part Two,
expands
on the first report and identifies the major lenders in the subprime lending market in Milwaukee County.
RELATED REPORT:
Homeless in Milwaukee,
a point in time survey on January 25, 2007, conducted by the Continuum of Care for Milwaukee County.
The Tenant Source Book Revised
For more than two decades The Tenant Sourcebook has been the
standard reference source for tenants and their advocates on housing law in Wisconsin.
Updated and Revised in March 2009 by Attorney Korey Lundin of the Madison Office of Legal Action of Wisconsin,
Inc. this new version includes the new law requiring that in foreclosure actions the tenant be given notice.
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What Safety Net?
Congressional testimony highlights Wisconsin's Failure to Respond to Crisis
The extent to which the 1996 welform reform law (sometimes called "TANF" nationally and W-2 in Wisconsin)
has failed was documented in Congressional testimony by Attorney Patricia DeLessio, a Staff Attorney with
Legal Action of Wisconsin. In testmony on December 9, 2009, at the request of Wisconsin Congresswoman
Gwen Moore of Milwaukee, Attorney DeLessio documented the stunning statistics that while 269,000
Wisconsin households
are poor enough to qualify for food stamps, only 8,600 received cash assistance from the W-2 program
for basic necessities other than food, such as rent and heat.
Click here for the story in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel online
Click here for the online Associated
Press story
December 2009 Study Details Needs To Reknit the Safety Net
Battered by the Storm: How the Safety Net is Failing Americans and How to Fix It
is the title of a 44 page study issued December 7, 2009 by the Institute For Policy Studies.
The report concludes that the economic crisis is still on the rise for millions of Americans,
while at the same time the social safety net is failing to support many of them. The key findings of the
report include:
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Levels of long-term unemployment, underemployment and discouraged workers are reaching historic levels;
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The percentage of poor children receiving temporary assistance under TANF (the main federal “welfare” program) has fallen from 62% in 1995 to 22% in 2008;
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TANF benefits are far from sufficient to support the families that depend on them: 2008 assistance payments averaged only 29% of the money needed to bring families up to the official poverty line;
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Even while labor force participation of mothers has increased, the supply of affordable child care has lagged behind, creating a significant barrier to employment for many, especially single mothers; and
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Roughly 57% of unemployed people are receiving unemployment compensation; for those receiving benefits, amounts are less than half of wages, and many are losing work-related health benefits.
Click here for a copy of the report
Click here for the Institute's website
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Access to Health Care in Wisconsin
The Pathway Plan:
Setting the Course Toward Universal Health Care in Wisconsin
Medicare & You 2009
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