11/10/2009 WISN12 MILWAUKEE, WIS.
In today’s dire economy, more suburban Wisconsin families are finding themselves on the streets, victims of random chance and bad timing. With nowhere else to go, they are leaving comfortable communities outside Milwaukee and making their way downtown, hoping to take advantage of services offered there. Homeless shelters turn away dozens—up to 100—people a day. “Homelessness doesn’t discriminate,” a shelter director said. “There is no face to homelessness.”

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09/24/2009 WISN.COM MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance fund has run out of money. Though the state does not have funds, unemployment checks are still being delivered because Wisconsin is borrowing the money from the federal government. The state’s debt has risen to $569 million and is expected to reach $2 billion by the end of 2010.

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03/04/2009 DAILYCARDINAL.COM UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – MADISON
If Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle chooses to expand unemployment eligibility and adopts two of the four federally recommended changes, the state would receive $89 million in funding from the federal stimulus bill. Wisconsin already took out a $400 million loan from the federal government to keep its unemployment fund afloat and with unemployment on the rise, Wisconsin federal debt is spinning out of control. Doyle has also increased business taxes as an attempt to level the budget, but increased business taxes force employers to lay off workers, who then turn to unemployment.

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