Rewriting the rules on health care for the poor, the Trump administration said Thursday it will allow states to require "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients to work, a hotly debated first in the program's half-century history.

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A new report says the federal health care law could spell additional tax penalties for Wisconsin businesses with a large number of low-income employees.

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By Matt Pommer The new budget gives Gov. Scott Walker’s administration the power to make sweeping changes in Medicaid and BadgerCare policies with minimal public or legislative input. Up to $500 million in Medicaid spending would be reduced, but how ...

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By Matt Pommer Republicans elected to the state Legislature for the first time this fall are getting an early view of the difficulty ahead in cutting government spending with the state facing a GOP-estimated $3.3 billion budget deficit for 2011-13. ...

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By Matt Pommer Wisconsin School Superintendent Tony Evers’ proposals for changing the state’s education finance were dead on arrival, thanks to the $420 million price tag and a projected multibillion budget deficit. “There won’t be more of anything for the ...

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Matt Pommer The leading Republican gubernatorial candidates say they are opposed to the Health Care Reform Act recently passed by the Democratic Congress and signed by President Obama. That’s just swell, but they should be telling us how they plan ...

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By Jeannine Aversa AP Economics Writer Washington (AP)- A Miami woman who exhausted her unemployment aid needs to pay bills. A Phoenix job-seeker wants a greater sense of purpose. The economy absorbed a flood of 805,000 new job-seekers last month ...

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By Matt Pommer Are you angry about the future requirement that everyone have health insurance? How about the fact that Wisconsin is about to require residents to carry liability insurance on the vehicles they own? Like the controversial health care ...

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By Matt Pommer An estimated 1.1 million Wisconsin residents now get their health needs met through Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor. Enrollment growth has averaged 9.7 percent annually for the last 10 years. More than $6 billion is ...

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By Andrew Taylor AP Writer Washington — Last year’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill is going to be even more expensive — $75 billion more. The new Congressional Budget Office estimate provides more ammunition for Republicans who say the stimulus ...

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