Citizen Action of Wisconsin

Three Milwaukee aldermen have confirmed speculation that they are considering a run for the mayor's office if Mayor Tom Barrett is elected governor.

A report released last week says Wisconsin employers and workers are paying 22% more for health insurance than the national average. Joy Cardin’s guest, after seven, says that while healthcare reform would ...

The Department of Labor reports that 190,000 jobs were lost in October. So far an estimated 8.1 million jobs have been lost since the recession began in December of 2007. October was the 22 consecutive month of job losses, the longest such losing streak in 70 years. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

After months of debate, plans to reform the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) are taking shape. The governor’s Milwaukee TEACH Act— whose lead authors are Sen. Lena Taylor, Sen. Tim Carpenter and Rep. ...

Areas of consensus and disagreement on key components of the health care bills being considered by the House and the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid presented an $848 billion health-care overhaul package on Wednesday that would extend coverage to 31 million Americans and reform insurance practices while adding an array of tax increases, including a rise in payroll taxes for high earners.

Attempts to discredit the health reform proposals now before Congress resemble the flawed arguments made in the 1960s.

Wisconsinites continue to pay more for health insurance than Americans generally, and the costs here have increased more rapidly, a new survey by benefits consulting firm Mercer shows.