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Financial Capability Can Help People From Variety Of Economic Backgrounds

WisContext

With financial literacy skills, people of all income levels can act — or not — to build their financial capability. They can create and manage a household budget, save money toward goals like buying a house or retirement, or even start a business. Lower- and middle-income families can use financial literacy to increase their overall security.

Series: Literacy In Wisconsin

Financial Literacy Poses Lifelong Challenges

Karen Faster

WisContext

In the best of worlds, people never stop improving their ability to make smart financial choices. It's a lifelong endeavor, with the financial decisions people face changing as they age and circumstances shift.

Series: Literacy In Wisconsin

Four Strategies That Can Help Build Financial Happiness

Karen Faster

WisContext

Four financial strategies can help people use their money to balance their needs with enjoyment of their lives, UW-Extension senior outreach specialist Peggy Olive said in an Aug. 5, 2015, talk at the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs.

Series: Elizabethkingia In Wisconsin

Tracing The Wisconsin Elizabethkingia Outbreak With The CDC

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Elizabethkingia continues to challenge epidemiologists as it afflicts people scattered throughout southern and eastern Wisconsin. It's a type of gram-negative bacteria found commonly in the environment, but only rarely causes disease in humans.

Series: Elizabethkingia In Wisconsin

CDC Specialist Explains Bacterial Outbreak In Wisconsin

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Frederica Freyberg

PBS Wisconsin

An outbreak of Elizabethkingia in Wisconsin has infected 48 people and killed 15 since November 2015. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pathogen specialist Dr. Michael Bell said the exact source of the outbreak is unknown, and CDC officials continue to research it.

Series: Literacy In Wisconsin

Series: Health Insurance And The ACA

Understanding Health Insurance Plans Requires Consumer Literacy

Stephanie Severs

UW-Extension

Making financial decisions about health insurance can be difficult for people who are unable to understand what's included in their coverage plans.

Series: Literacy In Wisconsin

Series: Known Unknowns

The Surprising Lack Of Data About Literacy

Scott Gordon

WisContext

In many ways, campaigns to improve literacy are more sophisticated than ever. In many ways, campaigns to improve literacy are more sophisticated than ever.

Increase Lapham, Wisconsin's First Scientist

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Erika Janik

Wisconsin Public Radio

On an early summer evening in 1836, the steamship New York docked on the Milwaukee lakefront and a young naturalist and engineer stepped ashore.

Series: Disparities And Equity In Wisconsin

Matthew Desmond Explores Milwaukee's Eviction Epidemic

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Evictions not only put poor families out on the streets, but simultaneously set off a cascade of consequences for both the people and neighborhoods affected.

The Commonplace Nature Of Evictions In Milwaukee

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Frederica Freyberg

PBS Wisconsin

Matthew Desmond's book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City covers Milwaukee's eviction epidemic, which is most common in poor neighborhoods, and with black, low-income women and children among the most affected.