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The grocery math for new parents in Wisconsin might be getting harder. 🍎 The U.S. House passed a spending bill cutting WIC by ~$200 million. For breastfeeding moms, monthly fruit + veggie benefits could fall from ~$52 to $13. For little ones, $26 to $10. Who relies on it here? More than a quarter of all Wisconsin kids under five — and the largest group of users statewide are white women in Milwaukee, Madison, and Marathon counties. The kicker: every $1 in WIC returns about $2.48 in future savings. Tell us what you’re seeing in your community. 👇
President Trump flew into Wisconsin farm country Friday. The visit was about tariffs and gas prices. Outside, hundreds showed up to be heard. Inside Custer Farms: a 45-minute roundtable on the economy, border security, the war with Iran and the midterms. Outside: about 300 near the airport, more than 150 at the event.
Quick — which candidate for Wisconsin governor was a former CDC intelligence officer who was on the first plane into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina? That one stumped the room on this morning’s Gubernatorial Match Game. Brian’s guess — Mandela Barnes — didn’t land, and Jamie took the point. The answer, straight from her campaign site: Sara Rodriguez.
9 in 10 voters agree corruption is the #1 problem in politics. 📊 Not 9 in 10 Democrats. Not 9 in 10 Republicans. 9 in 10 voters — period. → 83% want the president barred from financial conflicts of interest → 81% want an ethics watchdog with teeth → 79% want money out of elections Thom Hartmann breaks down the new Brennan Center poll — and why he calls Citizens United one of the most corrupt Supreme Court decisions ever. #Corruption #MoneyInPolitics #CitizensUnited #BrennanCenter ThomHartmann CivicMedia
Hospital costs up 140%. Wages up Only 83%. The Wisconsin healthcare math doesn’t add up — and one UW-Madison report shows why. Hospitals here charge private insurers some of the highest rates in the country. Just over 1 in 10 Wisconsinites skipped a doctor visit they needed because they couldn’t afford to go. #Wisconsin #Healthcare #WorkingFamilies #WisconsinNews #Daybreak
*”I’m going to need you not to say that out loud.”* That’s host Michelle Brown on Say Something Real — right after Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley calls Wisconsin’s rebate check a gimmick. His reason: if you didn’t earn enough to file income taxes, you didn’t qualify. The families squeezed hardest by gas, groceries, and rent were the ones the rebate couldn’t reach.
Should the public own half of AI? Bernie Sanders thinks so. His case in three lines: 🏛️ Our research built it. ⚡ Our power grids run it. 📚 Our data trained it. Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ellison are pouring hundreds of billions into AI — and standing to take home the trillions while up to 100 million American jobs are on the chopping block. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would take a 50% stake in OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI and route the dividends back to the people who actually made the technology possible. Alaska does it with oil. The question is whether we do it with AI — or hand the keys to four billionaires.
80% of Wisconsin “backed the budget deal.” 📊 Except that’s not exactly what the poll found. It asked people if they wanted lower property taxes, funded schools, and a $300 rebate — out of a surplus we already have. 80% said yes. Who wouldn’t? The second the same poll mentioned it could blow a hole in next year’s budget, support fell to 69%. People weren’t backing a plan. They were backing the things in it. The real question — is spending one-time money the smart way to pay for it? — is the one that sank the deal in the Senate, where 3 Republicans and all 15 Democrats voted no.
Rent used to be the safety net. Working families are stuck — but Jamie and Brian dig into the Milwaukee project that could be Wisconsin’s blueprint to fix it. Here’s the Wisconsin fix that’s actually getting built. #AffordableHousing #Housing #Affordability #Wisconsin #Milwaukee
Tom Tiffany called January 6 defendants “victims” who might deserve compensation from Trump’s $1.8B fund. Wisconsin Sen. Diane Hesselbein’s answer: a 100% state tax on any payment that lands in Wisconsin. Their fund. Our state’s call.
If we just cut the top #tax rate from 74% to 27%, prosperity would #trickledown. What actually happened? About $70 #trillion got transferred — up. Not to #workingfamilies. Past them.
Jamie Martinson on Daybreak: #hunger in America is worse right now than it was at the peak of COVID. 10% of #families skipping meals. 16% relying on food banks. If the #grocery bill feels heavier, it’s not just you.
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