- Safety net programs help drive down state poverty rate, By Bill Glauber, May 7, 2014, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Rising employment and safety net programs continued to drive down an alternate poverty measure in Wisconsin, according to a study released Wednesday by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. While the official poverty rate for Wisconsin was 12.8% last year, researchers found that a more accurate measure was 10.2% when accounting for such benefits as food assistance and refundable tax credits…”
- Dane County poverty rate remains above state average, By Jessica VanEgeren, May 7, 2014, Capital Times: “Three pockets of high poverty exist in Wisconsin and Dane County is one of them. Dane County joins Milwaukee County and Superior, a geographic area that includes several rural northwestern Wisconsin counties, as having higher overall poverty rates and child poverty rates than the statewide average — 10.2 percent and 11 percent respectively — according to the 2012 Wisconsin Poverty Report authored by UW-Madison’s Institute for Research and Poverty…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty