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Sen. Joan Ballweg saw the recall elections that resulted from Act 10 as the people getting a chance to have their say.

Wisconsin’s unemployment system failures are not only affecting people who live here. Art Valero lost his home in Florida while he waited for months to receive unemployment compensation he was due from Wisconsin. The checks, more than a dozen of them totaling $370 each, were deposited on Jan. 6 for a total of nearly $7,000. But by then, he had already lost his home, most of his family’s belongings were placed in storage, his two college-aged daughters had gone back to school — pa...

“I havent seen anything like it since my deployment to Iraq in 2007 and 2008,” U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Republican from Green Bay, told CNN of what happened at