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Milwaukee community garden looks to fight hunger, revive history
Neighbors are breaking ground this summer on a Milwaukee community garden that organizers said aims to address the area’s growing food scarcity.
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Wisconsin farmers can cash in on trees through new federally funded program
A sustainable agriculture project incentivizes Wisconsin farmers to plant trees on their land.
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Head Start report shows ICE enforcement in Wisconsin taking traumatic toll on kids
A new survey from Wisconsin Head Start Association shows the impacts of ICE enforcement in Wisconsin on young children.
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Projected Social Security cuts would hit one in five Wisconsinites
Social Security’s main retirement trust fund could be depleted in less than seven years.
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Wisconsin’s rural families burdened by childcare deserts
Almost half of young children in the U.S. live in childcare deserts, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress.
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WI energy program cuts costs and carbon in affordable housing
A Dane County program is working with rental property owners to make multifamily homes more energy efficient through renovations that make the buildings more environmentally sustainable while lowering energy bills, all at no cost to renters.
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WI pummeled early with record-shattering severe weather
In just the first three weeks of April, the state recorded more severe thunderstorm, tornado, and flash flood warnings than in any full month over the past 40 years of available data—well ahead of the typical peak later in the spring.
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WI scam survivor turns loss into law
A cryptocurrency scam victim in Wisconsin is speaking out about how her experience motivated her to prevent others from falling prey to similar scams.
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WI energy bills rise as Trump marks one year in office
On the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second term, advocates for clean energy and the environment are calling out the administration for failed promises to cut energy costs.
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Wisconsinites press Congress over unaffordable health insurance
Some Wisconsinites are looking to Congress to finish what it started this week in passing a bipartisan measure which would help lower the cost of soaring premiums that have made their health insurance unaffordable.
