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Release: Statement on Assault on Workers' Rights in Wisconsin

PSN on February 18, 2011 - 6:15pm
On February 18, 2011, Progressive States Network released the following statement in support of the actions of progressive state legislators in Wisconsin.

Department of Justice to States: Don’t Sue Polluters

Fabiola Carrion on September 2, 2010 - 1:18pm

In a blow to states’ leadership over clean energy, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that states cannot sue power plant operators that generate pollution. The Justice Department alleges that: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency has already started to regulate greenhouse emissions; and (2) states lack standing to assert a federal nuisance claim.

WI: Wisconsin Pushes to Broaden Free Birth-Control Thanks To New Health Law

Ben Secord on August 19, 2010 - 4:39pm
Wisconsin is pushing to expand a controversial program that uses federal Medicaid funds to provide free birth-control pills, vasectomies and other forms of contraception to low-income people, an effort made possible by the federal health-care overhaul.

It and 26 other states already provide free contraception and other reproductive-health services through a Medicaid pilot project to lower-earning women who otherwise wouldn't qualify.

2010 Legislative Session Roundup: Wisconsin

Cristina Francisco-McGuire on May 20, 2010 - 11:56am
In a year dominated by issues of job creation, child care reform, and discussions of how to expand mass transit, Wisconsin also made fantastic strides in efforts to green the state, protect pedestrians, create domestic partnership benefits, and ease the consequences of license suspension on low-income communities.

Health Care Lawsuits Politicized by Right-Wing, Losing Steam in the States

Charles Monaco on May 6, 2010 - 12:14pm
In the weeks following the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of health care reform were joined by multiple, conservative Attorneys General from states across the nation, despite widespread condemnation that such challenges were frivolous, wasteful, and almost certain to fail in the courts.  In early April, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius commented that she believed the lawsuits had "more to do with politics than policy."