Corrections: We're Number 3!

Growth in State Spending

Corrections and University of Wisconsin System

1990 and 2011

As priorities shift, corrections budget passes UW System. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/16/2012)

Excerpt: For 2011-'13, Gov. Scott Walker and GOP lawmakers allotted just under $2.1 billion to the state's public universities and $2.25 billion to the Department of Corrections. It's a gap that is unlikely to close any time soon. 

It's also not the work of a single budget and not the decision of a single party. Rather, the gap is the culmination of years of policy changes and shifting priorities, spanning Democratic and Republican governors, crisscrossing political lines and reflecting national trends, a Journal Sentinel analysis of more than 20 years of state budgets shows.

Wisconsin Governors since 1987

• Tommy Thompson (R), 1987-2001
• Scott McCallum (R), 2001-2003
• Jim Doyle (D), 2003-2011
• Scott Walker (R), 2011-

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Or there's this more descriptive version from the Wisconsin Budget Project for the FY2009-11 budget.  (Wisconsin Council on Children and Families)

Back to the 2011-2013 Budget in Brief.  Income (51%) and sales (33%) taxes are the two largest sources of general purpose revenue (GPR)

A more colorful version -- again, FY2009-11 budget -- from the Wisconsin Budget Project (Wisconsin Council on Children and Families)

FY2011-13 Budget in Brief

The top ten largest general revenue programs from the FY2009-11 Budget in Brief.

From the 2011-13 Budget in Brief.  Local assistance (51%) and Aid to individuals (22%) take up almost three-quarters of the pie.