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Failing Our Families
A lot of kids slipped through the cracks.
Evers’ DHS, DPI point fingers while kids wait for meals
Out of work, Kelly Walton applied for unemployment and waited months for UI payments. She received a five-day eviction notice in August.
Evers’ DWD breakdown pushed jobless to brink of homelessness
“I’m just so disappointed in how they’re treating citizens,”
Can’t your 8 year old watch the kids?
“It was just stress after stress after stress. It’s a blow to your gut, every night looking at your kids and not knowing what’s going to happen tomorrow.”
On the Edge of Eviction
Failing Our Communities
“You let a city go down to ruins. You should have been there for us and you weren’t.”
‘Why did you let us suffer?’
“I definitely think there could have been more done, especially after the second day of it,”
Robert Cobb: Beaten but not broken
“They begged for the governor to send in the National Guard from the start, and they didn’t get it.”
Our governor failed us
“He just waited. I don’t understand what the wait was for.”
Evers fiddled while Kenosha burned
Failing Our Employers
The $300 weekly subsidy is “without question incentivizing people to stay out of the workforce.”
Evers Worsens Worker Shortage
“Small businesses…were forced to upend their business model because Tony Evers told them they had to.”
Evers was ready to tax small businesses where they hurt
“Restaurants were the first to close to keep our communities safe, and will likely be the last to fully re-open.”
Restaurant Employees Laid Off
“It’s mostly the little local businesses, they are the ones that are going to suffer the most,”
Killing The Economy
Failing Our Workers
“I’m calling daily. I want to know where the money is. I want to know when I can expect it.”
Wisconsin fails single mom, cancer survivor
“Nearly 3 decades of employers paying into UI on my behalf, and I can’t seem to even get one penny from it.”
DWD Delivers Unhappy Holidays
“I’m on the brink of losing everything”
Stuck in a Dysfunctional System
“I’m sobbing on the phone with her. She said, ‘I can’t help you,’ and sent me to someone else.”
7 Months Unpaid
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