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‘I got nothing left’: Wisconsin’s jobless pushed to brink as ideas swirl for mending torn safety net

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | February 18, 2021

Upgrading outdated technology could help. So could making claims more user-friendly and overcoming partisan paralysis.

‘It’s a scary transition’: After pandemic closes doors at bars and restaurants, Amy Moreland carves a new career path

Wisconsin farmers: Fixing farm finances will improve mental health

‘The happiness and joy has been sucked out of me’: Wisconsin dairy farmers face mental health crisis

‘Winter is coming, and a lot of doors are going to be shut’: Restaurant and bar workers in peril as weather grows cold and COVID-19 keeps spreading

evictions

Evictions damage public health. The CDC aims to curb them — for now.

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR/Wisconsin Watch), Martha Bebinger (WBUR) and Darian Benson (Side Effects Public Media) | September 29, 2020

Housing and health are intertwined, experts have long preached. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pausing evictions to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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‘Rent is still due’: What you need to know about the CDC’s order to pause residential evictions

By Princess Safiya Byers (Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service) | September 29, 2020

A guide for renters at risk of eviction during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Timeline: Wisconsin’s eviction crisis

By Clara Neupert (Wisconsin Watch / News414) | September 29, 2020

An interactive timeline showcasing how the pandemic escalated Wisconsin’s evictions crisis.

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It does feel a little bit like ‘Groundhog’s Day’ — Dairy farmer Bryan Voegeli fears what an outbreak could mean for his farm

By | August 6, 2020

Day-to-day life hasn’t changed much on Bryan Voegeli’s dairy farm since the start of the pandemic, but that doesn’t keep him from worrying about what an outbreak could mean for his business.

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Milwaukee baker Adija Greer-Smith slowly reopens her business. ‘I’m a baker that believes positive energy transfers into everything that you do.’

By Jimmy Gutierrez (News414) | July 10, 2020

After nearly three months without sales, Greer-Smith is once again baking, getting ready to greet customers and bringing back staff.

Lives on Hold

‘I cried for days’: Wisconsin blocks pandemic payments for federal disability aid recipients

By Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | June 1, 2020

A 2013 Wisconsin law prevents laid-off workers on federal disability from getting state unemployment. Now the state is denying them federal pandemic aid too.

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Introducing dairy farmer Brian Voegeli: ‘Our Family Has Been Through A Lot’

By Bridgit Bowden (WPR) | May 26, 2020

Bryan Voegeli runs a dairy farm located between New Glarus and Monticello. “In our small corner of the world we were just starting to get through one set of difficult times, and now … like everyone else we kind of got hit with another.”

Gray Wolves

As wolves recover, calls in Wisconsin to end endangered species listing grow

By Rich Kremer (Wisconsin Public Radio) | November 30, 2019

Conflicts with farmers and hunters continue as the state’s wolf population has risen from extinction in 1960 to more than 900 animals today.

The Cannabis Question

Marijuana Inc.: Billions at stake as states move to legalize cannabis

By Parker Schorr (Wisconsin Watch) | September 22, 2019

If Wisconsin legalizes medical or recreational marijuana, state regulations would drive whether small and minority-owned businesses thrive — or even survive.

The Cannabis Question

Seeking economic justice through cannabis-related development

By Parker Schorr (Wisconsin Watch) | September 22, 2019

Entrepreneur Seke Ballard sees legalization as a way for people of color to get ahead after years of being harmed by marijuana laws.

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Property owners near Foxconn say they were misled. Now their homes are gone.

By Corrinne Hess (Wisconsin Public Radio) | September 3, 2019

Homeowners near the Foxconn facility say they sold their homes for road widenings that were either abandoned, embellished — or never planned.

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‘Blight’ declaration for Foxconn one of the largest ever seen, experts say

By Corrinne Hess (Wisconsin Public Radio) | September 3, 2019

In June 2018, the village of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, declared four square miles as blighted, giving the village board one more tool to force landowners to sell their property to make way for the Foxconn plant and associated development.

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