Knodl introduces bi-partisan bill focusing on W-2 fraud By Dan Knodl In 1994, Governor Tommy Thompson unveiled Wisconsin Works (W-2), a bipartisan plan that would dramatically reform welfare by ending cash handouts and placing a greater emphasis on work. W-2 programs subsidize employment, help parents find childcare, and even provide transportation assistance to adults who…
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Kevin Petersen
Poverty is Color Blind
By Kevin Petersen College financial aid is available in a variety of options including scholarships, loans, grants, and work study programs. Aid is offered at the local, state, and federal level. Wisconsin’s Higher Educational Aids Board (HEAB) is the state agency which manages and oversees the state’s student financial aid system. One grant Wisconsin offers…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
The Week That Was February 11, 2012
Quote of the Week “…it is an established rule of the Society, to which they will always adhere, never to give their opinion as a Body upon any subject either of Nature or Art, that comes before them. The ‘advertisement’ to The Philosophical Transactions, 1753 – on establishing the Royal Society [H/t Andrew Montford]…
Heartland Institute
Independent Panel Sees ‘Immense Risk’ in California High-Speed Rail
Transportation experts and taxpayer advocates are hailing an independent review panel’s recommendation against borrowing to build a high-speed rail line in California, but the state’s rail authority indicates it plans to keep rolling with its plans. The California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group created by the Legislature to analyze the feasibility of the proposed high-speed…
Gary Wickert
A Thank-You Card For Governor Scott Walker
The public employees, liberal activists, and union bosses who gathered signatures for the recall of Governor Scott Walker should instead have been gathering signatures for the world’s largest thankyou card. Given the fact that public employees are perhaps the biggest benefactors of Walker’s Budget Repair Bill, their time and money would have been better spent…
General
G. Edward Griffin’s Wisconsin Address Highlights Keys in War on Freedom
On Saturday, February 11, 2012, one tireless, outspoken captain of the movement to restore individual liberty in America as outlined in the US Constitution appeared at the Olympia Resort in Oconomowoc. G. Edward Griffin presented two separate forums at the well-organized and wellattended event put on by the Rock River Patriots. At the 1 p.m.…