“Funding Wisconsin’s Public Schools and expanding BadgerCare” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

We review a media event Citizen Action held with GROWW (Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin), Wisconsin Public Education Network, and WISDOM to highlight how across Wisconsin, regular people are confronting the growing threat of hyper-scale data centers, rising healthcare costs, underfunded public schools, and a political system where wealthy special interests wield more power and influence in Madison than the people who live here and called on Wisconsin’s newly elected Governor and State Legislature to work with organized people across the state and take meaningful action on major priorities for Wisconsin people and families including: (1) Fully Funding Wisconsin’s Public Schools, (2) Dramatically expanding BadgerCare, (3) Ending Wisconsin’s state sales tax exemption for data centers, and (4) Overhauling the prison system to improve public safety, close antiquated prisons, and invest in effective alternatives.

Robert tells us about the U.S. Senate moving a dangerous energy permitting bill forward with enough votes to ultimately pass and go to the U.S. House in the lame duck before the new Congress is sworn in.

We welcome Heather DuBois Bourenane from Wisconsin Public Education Network (WPEN) to discuss the historic opportunity Wisconsin has to fix the state funding formula and ensure all our public schools are properly funded so no school district needs to go to referendum to provide the basics.

Robert educates us on a potential new way for Wisconsin to expand BadgerCare to all Wisconsinites and Tammy Baldwin’s new federal bill to expand access to Medicare to everyone 50 and older.

Listen to the show.