AmeriCorps programs that serve Milwaukee receive $2.4M in funding to expand community assistance
Serve Wisconsin announced on September 20 that Wisconsin had received nearly $8.1 million in grant funding from AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and community volunteerism. Included within those funds are $2,417,154 in AmeriCorps funding for ten...
Pandemic Poverty: 2020 Statistics show that low-wage workers were hit hardest by the economic blows
By Elena Delavega, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Memphis Poverty in the U.S. increased in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic hammered the economy and unemployment soared. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder were hit hardest, new figures...
Corporate Profiteers: How contractors for the Pentagon won the War on Terror
The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion in expenditures and more than 380,000 civilian deaths, as calculated by Brown University’s Costs of War project. The question of who has...
DNC 2024: Mayor Tom Barrett tells Democratic Convention planners that Milwaukee is ready to host
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett formally responded to the Democratic National Committee’s invitation to compete for hosting its 2024 national convention. He said that Milwaukee was all in. As the economic engine for the state of Wisconsin, Milwaukee was selected in March...
Unemployment insurance was not keeping people out of work, it was keeping them out of poverty
An estimated 9 million Americans got the rug pulled out from under them over Labor Day weekend as enhanced pandemic federal unemployment benefits expired, leaving millions of families in the lurch during a record-breaking season for COVID-19 cases and...
Previous Shutdowns: What is at stake and who suffers if the Federal government closes its doors
By Matt Williams, Breaking News Editor, The Conversation The United States is once again staring down the barrel of a government shutdown. Barring progress on a spending bill to fund government agencies past September 30, and Democrats are busying themselves trying to...
Healing and Unity: Dr. James Cameron’s birthday set as reopening date for America’s Black Holocaust Museum
After the coronavirus pandemic delayed plans by almost two years, America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) held a press conference on September 28 to announce when its doors would open to the public. The long-awaited date is set for February 25, 2022. That would...
Milwaukee holds candlelight vigil with art exhibition to honor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A special candlelight vigil was held at Milwaukee City Hall to honor the life and service of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 27. Members of the public, activists, and civic leaders offered inspirational tributes to Justice Ginsberg’s...
Howard Fuller: How the former superintendent of MPS became a champion of school choice
By Jon Hale, Associate Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As a longtime civil rights activist and education reformer, Howard Fuller has seen his support for school choice spark both controversy and confusion. That is because it aligns...
Abuse of Power: Wisconsin GOP introduces bill to allow massive felony arrests of peaceful protestors
Remaining at a protest that turns violent or destructive could result in felony charges in Wisconsin under a proposal from Republican state lawmakers. Sponsors say the plan is partly in response to last summer’s violence and destruction in Kenosha following the police...
Finding Loren: New Film follows Milwaukee family’s effort to recover a father who was shot down in WWII
MSO’s new Bradley Symphony Center hosted its first ever film screening on September 25, with the world premiere of the new documentary “Finding Loren.” The film tells the story of P-47 fighter pilot Loren Hintz, who was shot down and lost at the end of World War...
Afghan evacuees begin leaving Fort McCoy for resettlement but sponsors still needed for families
Four weeks after evacuees from Afghanistan began arriving at Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy, a federal official at the base says they are preparing for a large number of people to start leaving and settling across the country. Skye Justice, the U.S. State...
