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Additional Resources on Understanding and Reducing Poverty

 

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Policy Organizations

Other Milwaukee and Wisconsin Anti-Poverty Agencies

Downloadable PDF Documents

 

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• Covering Kids and Families has compiled a helpful reference guide listing the various programs available in all 72 Wisconsin counties, including BadgerCarePlus, Free/Low Cost School Meals, Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance, Wisconsin Shares, FoodShare, Wisconsin Works and WIC. For listings for Milwaukee County, click here.

• Visit ACCESS to assess your eligibilty—or to apply—for FoodShare, BadgerCare Plus, Medicaid, SeniorCare and other state programs.

• BadgerCare Plus, a program for eligible Wisconsin residents who need and want health insurance
  • Children under 19 years of age and families
  • Childless Adults
  • Milwaukee Health Department Medical Assistance Outreach Program
• FoodShare, the Food Stamp Program in Wisconsin
  
  
• Women, Infants and Children, providing supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition and breastfeeding information, and referral to other health and nutrition services to pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, infants and children.

Policy Organizations

• Center for American Progress, “From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half” (April 2007)
  
  
• National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, “State Strategies to Reduce Child and Family Poverty” (June 2008)

• Urban Institute

• Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
  
  
• National Academy of Social Insurance
  
  
• UWM Center for Economic Development.
  See specifically their Monthly Employment Watch: Milwaukee and the Nation's Largest Cities, a monthly report on employment trends in the nation’s largest cities (February 2009)
  


• UWM Employment and Training Institute
  
  
• UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty.
  See specifically their Wisconsin Poverty Report (April 2009).
  
  
• MDRC
  
  
• Brookings Institution: Metropolitan Studies Program
  
  
• Half in Ten
  
  
• Poverty in Michigan
  
  
• Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
  
  
• The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America
  
  
• The Promising Practices Network, dedicated to providing quality evidence-based information about what works to improve the lives of children, youth, and families.

• Minnesota Poverty Commission, a legislative commission to end poverty in Minnesota by 2020. See also the Minnesota Poverty Commission's Poverty Research Resources.

• The New York Center for Opportunity, seeking innovative ways to reduce poverty in New York City.

• Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, a non-parisan initiative aimed at ensuring that our political leaders take significant actions to reduce poverty and increase opportunity in the United States.

Other Milwaukee and Wisconsin Anti-Poverty Agencies and Programs

• Vital Signs (Greater Milwaukee Foundation)

• Hunger Task Force, Inc.
  
  
• The Milwaukee Urban League
  
  
• Social Development Commission
  
  
• Wisconsin Communty Action Program (WISCAP)
  
  
• Wisconsin Council on Children and Families

• City of Milwaukee Health Department's Center for Health Equity

• Center for Urban Population Health
  • 2009 Milwaukee Health Report (PDF)

Downloadable PDF Documents

• The Job Shortage
  
  
• Ending Poverty in Wisconsin: Plan of Action
  
  
• The New Hope Project: Milwaukee
  
  
• Canada’s Work Incentive Progam
  
  
• Milwaukee Addiction Treatment Initiative