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M.D. Kittle: Checking Evers’ ed spending orgy

Wisconsin’s K-12 schools have received more than $2.6 billion in federal COVID relief over the run of the pandemic — an unprecedented amount of funding. With that in mind, Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee on Thursday hit the brakes on Gov. Tony Evers’ massive state education spending plan.

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Dan O’Donnell: A special kind of ignorance

For no real reason other than to force Republicans to reject what Evers believes is a popular proposal, the Governor called them into special session last week to take up the Medicaid expansion that they have resisted since it was first offered seven years ago.

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Sachin Shivaram: Labor shortage has no simple fix

The fix is not as simple as reducing unemployment benefits. That may help at the margins, but the solution must include measures to improve affordability of childcare, reform immigration, upskill the labor force and much more. We have a lot of work to do.

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M.D. Kittle: Checking Evers’ ed spending orgy

Wisconsin’s K-12 schools have received more than $2.6 billion in federal COVID relief over the run of the pandemic — an unprecedented amount of funding. With that in mind, Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee on Thursday hit the brakes on Gov. Tony Evers’ massive state education spending plan.

Read More »

Dan O’Donnell: A special kind of ignorance

For no real reason other than to force Republicans to reject what Evers believes is a popular proposal, the Governor called them into special session last week to take up the Medicaid expansion that they have resisted since it was first offered seven years ago.

Read More »

Sachin Shivaram: Labor shortage has no simple fix

The fix is not as simple as reducing unemployment benefits. That may help at the margins, but the solution must include measures to improve affordability of childcare, reform immigration, upskill the labor force and much more. We have a lot of work to do.

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