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ACA Defunding Moves Put Health Care Cost Controls In Doubt

WisContext

Amid several frustrated attempts to get Congress repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is taking multiple steps to simply inhibit the law's annual implementation.

Series: Health Insurance And The ACA

What Could Healthcare Executive Orders Mean For Wisconsin?

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Zac Schultz

PBS Wisconsin

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Two federal healthcare policy changes allow smaller, cheaper plans to be sold across state lines, and end payments for cost-sharing reductions. Bobby Peterson of ABC for Health and Brian Potter of the Wisconsin Hospital Association sort through what these changes mean for Wisconsin.

Series: Foxconn In Wisconsin

Foxconn's Complex Path From And Back To Lake Michigan

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Building the infrastructure to serve Foxconn's proposed factory with water will be a major engineering and construction project in its own right.

Series: Phosphorus In Wisconsin's Land And Water

Fighting Algal Blooms In The Great Lakes Without Pointing Fingers

Steven Maier

Great Lakes Echo

Federal officials are launching a two-year study to determine the best ways to convince farmers to help fight water pollution in the Great Lakes region.

Series: The Dairy State Economy

Series: Wisconsin's Diverse Waves Of Immigration

What Impacts Does Deportation Have On Dairy Farms?

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Frederica Freyberg

PBS Wisconsin

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How might proposed tightening of U.S. immigration policy affect farmers in Wisconsin? Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism managing editor Dee Hall discusses about how farm workers in Wisconsin who are undocumented would fare under proposed changes to deportation policy.

Series: The Dairy State Economy

Series: Wisconsin's Diverse Waves Of Immigration

Why Immigrant Workers Became The Backbone Of Wisconsin's Dairy Business

Dee J. Hall

Wisconsin Watch

Riley Vetterkind

Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Immigration as a top line issue for dairy farmers would have been unthinkable just a generation ago when Wisconsin's agricultural landscape was dominated by small and medium-sized dairy farms run by the families that owned them.

Series: Food Security And Assistance In Wisconsin

Growing Incentives For FoodShare Users At Farmers' Markets

Samantha Nash

PBS Wisconsin

Throughout the growing season, many Wisconsinites stop by farmers' markets to grab a bite to eat, chat with neighbors and, of course, purchase fresh produce and other foods. But this type of shopping can be cost prohibitive for people who have lower or fixed incomes.

Series: Foxconn In Wisconsin

How Foxconn Can Turn On The Faucet In Mount Pleasant

Scott Gordon

WisContext

As Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn scouted out potential locations for a LCD manufacturing complex in southeastern Wisconsin — eventually selecting a site in Mount Pleasant that's 20 million square feet in size — the company was also thinking about water.

Capping A Brief Boom For Wisconsin's Historic Preservation Tax Credit

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Given the budget season's extensive debates over broad funding areas like transportation, there's understandably been less attention recently on a dispute over Wisconsin's historic preservation tax credits.

Sharp Cuts To Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit

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Frederica Freyberg

PBS Wisconsin

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Among Governor Scott Walker's 99 vetoes to the 2017-19 budget was a sharp reduction to a tax credit aids developers rehabilitating historic buildings. UW-Milwaukee professor and Historic Preservation Institute director Matthew Jarosz discusses the impacts of this credit.