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Series: Food Security And Assistance In Wisconsin

What Gets Overlooked In Wisconsin's Food Stamp Conversation

WisContext

With the release of Gov. Scott Walker's 2017-19 budget proposal, Wisconsin is again debating how distribution of food stamps should work.

Series: Refugee Resettlement In Wisconsin

A Speed Bump And Uncertain Future For Wisconsin Refugee Aid Groups

Scott Gordon

WisContext

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 27 halting immigration to the United States from seven majority-Muslim countries, confusion, fear and protests ensued at airports across the country as border patrol agents held up incoming refugees and foreign nationals who already had green cards.

Series: Growing Rural Wisconsin's Economy

How Transportation Funding Looks From A Spring Valley Travel Center

Scott Gordon

WisContext

They're as familiar a part of America's car-oriented transportation infrastructure as the roads themselves: Highway travel centers with gas, commercial truck and RV parking, Wi-Fi, a convenience store and maybe an in-house fast-food joint or and other amenities.

Series: Refugee Resettlement In Wisconsin

A Syrian Refugee Family Seeks To Rebuild Their Lives In Middleton

Kristian Knutsen

WisContext

Every single refugee among multitudes around the world has their own individual story, their own experience of fleeing danger and seeking a better life elsewhere. One family that escaped Syria and moved to Wisconsin offers an example of the personal scope of this vast crisis.

Series: Wisconsin's Diverse Waves Of Immigration

A View From Milwaukee On Trump's Immigration Orders

Scott Gordon

WisContext

The first week of the Trump administration brought a hail of executive orders, including two that marked an abrupt shift in U.S. immigration policy.

Series: Health Insurance And The ACA

A Wisconsin Doctor's Perspective On ACA Repeal

Scott Gordon

WisContext

As a new president took office after campaigning hard against the Affordable Care Act, a University of Wisconsin physician is urging caution on making immediate changes to the health care system.

Quantity And Quality Of Jobs Each Important In Wisconsin's Economic Recovery

Scott Gordon

WisContext

The status of Wisconsin's economy as 2017 begins offers convincing fodder for just about any narrative about jobs in the state, as long as it's either buoyant and sunny or frustrated and pessimistic.

Series: Health Insurance And The ACA

What Affordable Care Act Limbo Looks Like In Wisconsin

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Repeal and... what exactly then? And is repeal even certain?

Frac Sand Deposits Are Abundant In Wisconsin

Karen Faster

WisContext

Although sand has been mined across Wisconsin for over a century, the large-scale mines and associated processing and transportation facilities are relatively new.

Economic Opportunity, Fragile Fisheries Drive Aquaculture In Wisconsin

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Around the world, an increasing proportion of the fish and other seafood people eat, catch, use as bait or put in aquariums is raised in controlled environments in a practice known as aquaculture. This industry is growing quickly in Wisconsin.