Rewind: Your Week in Review for June 21

On this week’s episode, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Shawn Johnson and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold lame-duck laws, the state budget, the Assembly’s passage of bills on homelessness and Lincoln Hills deadline, and more.

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Ian Smith & Buzz Davis: VA healthcare hit with one-two punch! Veterans and unions fight back

First vets were hit with the massive privatization program called Choice passed by the Republican Congress in 2014 and signed by Pres. Obama. But 70 House Democrats thought the Choice program was not the way to improve VA veteran healthcare. They voted NO. The second punch was President Trump’s hitting unionized VA workers with a “bad faith” proposed bargaining contract to replace the present contract covering 260,000 VA workers.

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WISCAP/IRP poverty report release and bill introduction event

Senate Parlor, State Capitol. The UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty will release their findings of the 11th Annual Wisconsin Poverty Report. Tim Smeeding, Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, will conduct the presentation and be on hand to answer questions. Brad Paul, Executive Director of WISCAP,

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Rewind: Your Week in Review for June 21

On this week’s episode, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Shawn Johnson and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold lame-duck laws, the state budget, the Assembly’s passage of bills on homelessness and Lincoln Hills deadline, and more.

Read More »

Ian Smith & Buzz Davis: VA healthcare hit with one-two punch! Veterans and unions fight back

First vets were hit with the massive privatization program called Choice passed by the Republican Congress in 2014 and signed by Pres. Obama. But 70 House Democrats thought the Choice program was not the way to improve VA veteran healthcare. They voted NO. The second punch was President Trump’s hitting unionized VA workers with a “bad faith” proposed bargaining contract to replace the present contract covering 260,000 VA workers.

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