The Revolving Door Between Government and Lobbyists

Bipartisan support for SB300.

[Editorial] Cancer bill gets rough treatment from Scott Fitzgerald. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3/16/2014)

The Wisconsin version. So why can't it pass the Wisconsin Legislature? 

It's because Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald is taking extraordinary measures to block it. His brother, former Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, is now a lobbyist on behalf of insurers who want to kill the bill.

Scott Fitzgerald has a lot of interests.

Top fundraisers in 2013

OpenSecrets.org:  Revolving Door.

Scott Walker Looks into his Crystal Ball

Or did he see this on his radar?

Wisconsin Medicaid enrollment down, but Gov. Scott Walker predicts surge.  (Wisconsin Business Journal, 3/14/2014)

Related posts:
Michael Eisenga is not on Scott Walker's radar.  (3/17/2014)
Scott Walker's defective radar.  (3/12/2014)

Scraping By on $83.65 an Hour

Low-Wage Workers Find It’s Easier to Fall Into Poverty, and Harder to Get Out. (The New York Times, 3/16/2014)

$1.75 above the Tennessee minimum wage of $7.25. “There’s just no way, making $9 an hour as a single parent with two children, that I can live without assistance,” said Ms. McCurdy, 40, a strong-voiced, solidly built Chattanooga native.

But for some, it's tough all over.

Related posts: 
Minnesota legislature looks to boost minimum wage from $6.15 to $9.50 per hour.  (3/4/2014)
The minimum wage:  It's not the same all over.  (2/18/2014)
A border debate on the minimum wage.  (2/16/2014)
The MacIver Institute's Pavlovian response to an increase in the minimum wage. (1/10/2014)
The view from the other side of the counter.  (11/29/2013)
The minimum wage and the poverty guideline.  (11/20/2013)
Most of us don't buy into U.S. Chamber of Commerce handwringing over minimum wage.  (11/12/2013)
A look at the minimum wage.  (9/28/2013)