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Poverty is up in Wisconsin : New data shows poverty in Wisconsin has increased from 10.2 percent in 2005 to 13.2 percent in 2010. The Applied Population Lab at UW-Madison crunched the numbers from the American Community Survey (ACS) distributed to some ...

Editorial: Fighting hunger is community committment "…the middle class is taking a beating," is how Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin Madison, summed things up in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story. Income is falling, the cost of medical ...