Rep. Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point) questions a witness during a hearing Wednesday on several bills that would affect Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance program. (Screenshot | WisEye) A week after Wisconsin voters favored an advisory referendum by a 3-to-1 margin that asked if people should be required to look for work in return for “welfare benefits,” lawmakers held hearings on eight bills that the Republican authors said reflect that sentiment.
Five of the measures would make changes to Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system, most of them aiming to make it easier to take away jobless pay. One would make it easier for the […]
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