Dan Kelly’s Extremism: Social Security Edition
Dan Kelly compared funding for Social Security to slavery in a blog post he tried to scrub from the internet and hide from public view.
Dan Kelly compared funding for Social Security to slavery in a blog post he tried to scrub from the internet and hide from public view.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday signed new limits on welfare programs into law, committing state and federal taxpayers to nearly $80 million in spending to draw more people into the labor...
The bulk of Gov. Scott Walker’s welfare overhaul package, including increasing work requirements for food stamp recipients and imposing them on parents for the first time, won final legislative approval on Tuesday.
An Assembly Committee met to vote on a series of hastily drafted bills that are the subject of a politically motivated session called by Gov. Scott Walker.
If he thinks people who get public housing need to be drug tested, Scott Walker and adults living with him in the mansion ought to be at the front of the line.
Bills to toughen Wisconsin’s welfare requirements offered by Gov. Scott Walker are estimated to cost more than $90 million a year. The proposals include increasing work requirements for able-bodied adults on food...
The legislature is holding a public hearing on the hastily drafted bills that are the subject of a politically motivated special session called by Scott Walker.
Wisconsin Republicans led by Gov. Scott Walker announced a special session of the legislature devoted to renewed attacks on families struggling to get by.
Health coverage under a plan from Gov. Scott Walker that has won support from President Donald Trump’s administration…Walker and his fellow GOP governors in nine other states have sought to impose work...
Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday called on the Wisconsin Legislature to pass a sweeping welfare overhaul package with some of the toughest requirements in the country, including forcing parents on food stamps...
While Adam Jarchow seeks to feather his own nest in the legislature, his right-wing allies are doing the dirty work of attacking his opponent.
Scott Walker is trying to tell us he’s not a hypocrite for taking money from marijuana advocates at the same time he’s pushing drug testing people.
According to One Wisconsin Now, Walker’s policy represents exactly the kind of political hypocrisy that has kept cannabis illegal for so many decades.
Mike Browne, the group’s deputy director, questioned why Walker would accept a donation from the pro-pot group.
One Wisconsin Now called out the donation as hypocritical, citing Walker’s continued push for more drug testing for public benefits recipients.
Taking campaign cash from a group that supports marijuana use at the same time as working to take services away from people if they use it is just wrong.
One Wisconsin Now revealed the RGA accepted a donation from a cannabis trade group as Walker was lobbying to drug test the state’s Medicaid applicants.
The donation came on February 7, according to federal campaign finance reports from the RGA, and was publicized Tuesday by One Wisconsin Now.
Scott Walker, as head of the Republican Governor’s Association, accepted a major contribution from a marijuana industry trade group.
"Scott Walker wants to drug test poor people simply because they're poor," said Ross. "While he takes money from the drug trade association."
One Wisconsin Now said at a press conference that Walker, as chair of the RGA, received $25,000 from the National Cannabis Industry Association in February.
A charge of hypocrisy has been leveled by Wisconsin Democrats, over Governor Scott Walker‘s plans to drug test public assistance recipients.
On Tuesday, liberal group One Wisconsin Now, Sen. LaTonya Johnson (D-Milwaukee) and Rep. Jimmy Anderson (D-Monona) say Walker's plan makes him "a hypocrite."
The donation came on February 7, according to federal campaign finance reports from the Republican Governor’s Association, and was publicized Tuesday by One Wisconsin Now.
On Tuesday, liberal group One Wisconsin Now called out the donation hypocritical, citing Walker’s continued push for more drug testing for public benefits recipients.
A project created by a team of six elementary school students was in the spotlight Tuesday morning when Gov. Scott Walker visited the Sevastopol School District to honor Sharing is Caring. The...
The state Legislature’s budget-writing committee voted on Thursday to require some Wisconsin residents using food stamps and receiving public health care to be tested for drug use and to meet work requirements...
Wisconsin is preparing to recast its Medicaid program in ways that no state has ever done, requiring low-income adults to undergo drug screening to qualify for health coverage and setting time limits...
Gov. Scott Walker wants to make Wisconsin the first state in the country to require able-bodied, childless adults applying for Medicaid health benefits to undergo drug screening, a move that could serve...
“Anyone supporting Gov. Scott Walker’s drug testing scheme ought to be at the front of the line to get drug tested themselves.”
Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, believes that citizens of his state who use public services should have to submit to drug testing. And anyone who refuses to be tested should be turned...
An Illinois sheriff blasted Wisconsin officials Monday for not picking up a runaway Dane County foster child arrested in Chicago. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Sheriff Thomas Dart of Illinois’ Cook...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is proposing changes to the state’s Medicaid program, also known as BadgerCare, that would would require drug testing and treatment for some applicants. An official in the Walker...
Wisconsin’s motto is “forward.” So it is no surprise that the Badger State is, once again, leading the way with some of the most bold welfare reforms in country. Governed by a...
Now that House Republicans have squandered their shot at reordering Medicaid, governors who want conservative changes in the health program for low-income Americans must get special permission from the Trump administration. Near...
Hundreds more prisoners could get treatment for drug abuse and an early release from prison if successful, under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget bill. The proposal applies only to those who have been...
After several years without any substantive increases in the reimbursement rate, Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed 2017-19 state budget offers a glimmer of hope for a struggling industry. The budget calls for a...
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget offers a series of initiatives to address homelessness in the state, with advocates applauding the moves and calling on the state to do more.Among other things, the...
A bright budget outlook could mean millions of more dollars sent from the state to county governments to provide child welfare services and to fix their roads, Gov. Scott Walker told county...
A proposed work requirement for parents on food stamps would affect nearly 100,000 recipients, new data show. Gov. Scott Walker will propose in his 2017-19 state budget, set to be released on...
Jenni Dye said there are other strategies for preventing premarital pregnancy that Walker has opposed, such as providing contraception and reproductive health services to low-income women.
Gov. Scott Walker wants parents who receive food stamps to work at least 80 hours per month to continue to receive full benefits.Walker made the announcement Monday in appearances around the state...
About 21,000 Wisconsin residents using food stamps have gained employment through a state program designed to connect recipients with jobs, Gov. Scott Walker announced during his annual State of the State address...
Ron Johnson is suggesting that poor single moms take jobs in the day care centers watching their children, a practice Wisconsin restricted seven years ago.
More than 120,000 fewer Wisconsin residents are using food stamps than two years ago, and up to $197 million less will be spent on food stamps this year than what was spent...
Gov. Scott Walker has approved a rule implementing drug screening requirements for unemployment benefits. The rule implements provisions in the state budget. Under the rule, those who fail an employer drug test...
Taxpayers have spent $60 million on new work requirements that have kicked three times as many Wisconsinites off of food benefits than those who found jobs. One year after the state began...
In May of this year, Governor Scott Walker proposed a bill requiring that anyone applying for public assistance be required to complete a screening questionnaire for illegal drug use. Those deemed at...