Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse

Ventings from a guy with an unhealthy interest in budgets, policy, the dismal science, life in the Upper Midwest, and brilliant beverages.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Bad signs all around for the health of Americans, and our economy

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I wanted to update a couple of economic stats from the last few days. And it shows that the damage to the economy from both unemployment a...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Wis budget should make it through 2020. August will let us know how short we are in 2021

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Late this week, we got Preliminary information from Wisconsin's Legislative Fiscal Bureau on how the state's tax revenues looked ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

WisGOP scheme to hand out unemployment checks would be wasteful and a corporate bailout

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After complaining for months about the state's backlog of unemployment claims, Wisconsin Republicans finally came up with some kind ...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Extra Fed help means Medicaid won't break Wis budget yet. Why not get more help via the ACA?

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I was looking at the end of last weekend for the quarterly update on Wisconsin's Medicaid budget figures. Since COVID-19 broke out in ...
Monday, July 6, 2020

PPP takers prove again that GOPs aren't about low spending or free markets

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Who could possibly have seen this coming? 3 Kushner family enterprises received PPP loans, so did the Daily Caller, Newsmax , Grover Nor...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Wisconsin's COVID resurgence different than what we had before

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Every afternoon, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services comes out with its report on new COVID-19 cases and deaths in the state. An...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Happpy 4th. Today's annual reading of the Declaration that we celebrate

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As is tradition on this page, I give you the document we celebrate on this July 4 - The Declaration of Independence. As relevant today a...
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