Voces de la Frontera: Tonight in Green Bay: Statewide tour kicks off to restore driver licenses for immigrants

Contact: Sam Singleton-Freeman, sfreeman@vdlf.org, 414-469-9206 GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN — On Friday, July 5th, Voces de la Frontera will kick off the Defending Families, Restoring Driver Licenses for Immigrants statewide tour, a series of town hall forums in cities and towns across Wisconsin to build support for legislation to restore access to driver licenses for immigrant Wisconsinites. The first town hall of the statewide tour is Friday night in Green Bay at 6pm at Vida Nueva Methodist Church (919 Schwartz St). The tour will also include forums in Wauwatosa (July 13), Racine (July 20), Madison, (July 20), Waukesha (August 2), and Dodgeville (August

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Protect Our Care: Trump’s lawsuit to overturn health care–eliminating Medicaid expansion

Contact: Joe Zepecki jz@jzcomms.com 202-445-1517 MILWAUKEE, WI – In four days, Trump’ Administration lawyers will go to court to overturn our health care laws. If President Trump succeeds in Texas v. United States, costs will go up, coverage will get worse, and millions of Americans will lose their health insurance. If Trump gets his way: MEDICAID EXPANSION WOULD BE ELIMINATED  Seventeen Million People Enrolled Through Medicaid Expansion Could Lose Coverage. Access To Treatment Would Be In Jeopardy For 800,000 People With Opioid Use Disorder. Roughly four in ten, or 800,000 people with an opioid use disorder are enrolled in Medicaid. Many became eligible through Medicaid expansion.

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Rewind: Your Week in Review for July 5

On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ budget vetoes, legislation Evers signed to delay the closure of the state’s youth prisons and the dismissal of the Wisconsin redistricting case.

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Rewind: Your Week in Review for July 5

On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ budget vetoes, legislation Evers signed to delay the closure of the state’s youth prisons and the dismissal of the Wisconsin redistricting case.

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