MADISON - People injured on the job in Wisconsin haven’t seen an increase in benefits in four years because of political disputes over the state’s workers compensation system.
Wisconsin lawmakers for decades took the advice of a panel of labor and management representatives to decide how to run the system and how much to pay injured workers. That approach has broken down in recent years.
Republicans who control the Legislature have been unable to agree among themselves on workers compensation for most of the last decade.
With a new legislative session underway, lawmakers will once again consider workers compensation and decide whether to increase benefits for the first time since 2017.
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MADISON - Supporters of the latest plan to spend nearly $2 billion in federal stimulus money on schools in Wisconsin say kids in the state canât wait any longer.
The Institute for Reforming Government on Thursday announced a broad coalition of groups, including the stateâs largest business group Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, that supports spending the stateâs stimulus money directly on kids who need to catch-up from a year of lost learning.
âOur childrenâs education is at stake,â IGR President CJ Szafir said. âWisconsin families know whatâs best for their children, and policymakers should work to give them the ability to choose courses that best suit their childrenâs needs.â
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a pair of cases that could decide whether state environmental regulators have the authority to place limits on farming in Wisconsin to protect groundwater.
In the first case, environmental group Clean Wisconsin and Kewaunee County residents contested the DNR’s approval of a wastewater discharge permit as part of Kinnard Farms’ request to expand its concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) by adding a second site and more than 3,000 dairy cows.
Royce Podeszwa and Jim Malewitz
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The state Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a case that could determine whether the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources failed to adequately protect water from manure pollution when awarding a permit to a giant dairy farm in northeastern Wisconsin or whether the agency lacks the authority to issue such restrictions.
The case involving Kinnard Farms, a Kewaunee County mega-dairy farm with about 8,200 cows, has become a regulatory battleground, drawing a litany of environmental and industrial groups in support or opposition to the lawsuit. The GOP-controlled state Legislature even petitioned the court to intervene on behalf of the owners of Kinnard Farms, which the justices allowed.