POLITICS
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Sarah Godlewski Appointed Secretary of State Following Doug La Follette’s Surprise Resignation
Gov. Tony Evers appointed Godlewski, the former state treasurer, to fill the rest of the nearly four-year term La Follette won in November—ending a tenure that first started in 1974.
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What Life Was Like When Wisconsin’s 1849 Abortion Ban Was Passed
Should women in Wisconsin have their reproductive freedom dictated by a law that was passed 174 years ago, when life was almost completely unrecognizable to those of us living today?
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Biden’s Budget Would Tax Billionaires, Corporations to Strengthen Medicare, Expand Child Care, and Help Families
Republicans immediately rejected Biden’s plan, but have yet to release their own budget. They have made it clear, however, that they want to apply deep spending cuts to everything from health insurance to food assistance benefits.
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Biden Proposes Taxes on the Rich to Strengthen Medicare Funding
Biden’s plan would increase the Medicare tax rate on Americans earning above $400,000 from 3.8% to 5% to help keep Medicare solvent into the 2050s. No one earning under $400,000 a year would pay a dime more in taxes, under Biden’s plan.
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GOP Plans Could Include Deep Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act
House Republicans want to apply deep cuts to everything from health insurance to food assistance benefits, an effort that would plunge millions more Americans into extreme poverty.
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One-on-One with Mandela Barnes
The 35-year-old former Lieutenant Governor and US Senate candidate tells us what he’s working on now, what’s next, and his six favorite Wisconsin places to visit while on the road.
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The Supreme Court Is Hearing Arguments About Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation Plan on Tuesday. Here’s What You Need to Know
About 90% of the benefits from Biden’s plan will go to families earning less than $75,000 according to the White House, but a group of Republican-led states have sued to block it.
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Three Things You Can Do This Weekend to Help Wisconsinites Get Their Rights Back
The 2019 state Supreme Court election was decided by less than 6,000 votes– proving the phrase “every vote counts” is extra true in Wisconsin.
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5 Things You Don’t Know About Wisconsin’s Supreme Court
Let’s not overhype it: Voting in Wisconsin’s April election isn’t as exciting as a presidential contest. But it’s just as, if not more, consequential.
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Millions of Americans Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Later This Year When the COVID-19 Emergency Ends. Here’s What You Need to Know.
The Biden administration announced recently that the U.S. will no longer be in a COVID-19 emergency as of May 11, which means that an estimated five to 14 million Americans could lose access to health insurance via Medicaid.
