Wisconsin Policy Forum: City of Milwaukee budget proposal avoids severe cuts, increases fees

Thanks to state law, city has window of opportunity to find efficiencies before cost pressures ramp up Milwaukee’s 2026 budget proposal shows how far the city has come since 2022, when the Forumwarned that soaring pension costs and a daunting array of fiscal challenges threatened to force“untenable budget cuts” unless prompt action was taken. Four years later, an infusion of new revenue from a lan...