But first, to offer a contrast..
Walker's OK with it. (
Capital Times, 3/19/2013)
As is
Mark Bugher, who served as Secretary of Revenue from 1988 to 1996 and Secretary of Administration from 1996 to 1999 under Tommy Thompson.
Photo credits: Wikipedia, Wisconsin State Legislature
Oh, the horrors! An interest in poverty!
Blank discusses the fundamental changes occurring in federal policy. Her analysis suggests two challenges: first, that poverty has become harder to address through broad-based economic growth policies. Blank identifies the change in the nature of employment and poverty in the past 20 years. While evidence shows that between 1960 and 1980 a growing economy led to more employment, which was the largest factor in reducing poverty, the positive economic growth of the past two decades has actually seen a slight increase in poverty, especially in the 1990s. Drawing from a growing body of research, Blank suggests a number of reasons why employment has been less effective in leading people out of poverty. Wages for low-skilled workers have fallen more than 20 percent in the past 15 years, coupled with the growing part-time nature of low-wage occupations. Sixty-three percent of all poor families have one worker, yet only 20 percent of these families contain a full-time, year-round worker.
It doesn't take much to figure out Grothman's priorities.
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