MADISON, Wisconsin, April 3 -- A Better Wisconsin Together, a state-based research and communications hub for progressives, issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: Today, Governor Tony Evers vetoed Assembly Bill 377, a GOP bill that would unjustly target LGBTQ+ youth and put elected officials in charge of deciding what sports kids in Wisconsin can play. According to A Better Wisconsin Together Communications Director Lucy Ripp, the bill vetoed today is another in a long line of GOP  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, April 3 (TNSres) -- The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association issued the following news release: SNAP is responsible for the majority of Farm Bill outlays. Some federal legislators would like to reallocate money from SNAP towards safety net programs for commodity farmers. New research demonstrates how SNAP itself helps farmers. SNAP increases demand for the food and commodities that farmers grow; farm commodity prices are slightly (less than 1%) higher due to SNAP  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, April 3 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: Florida has fallen to anti-abortion crusaders. A crushing decision on Monday, April 1, by the state Supreme Court approved one of the nation's strictest abortion bans. The Freedom From Religion Foundation calls it appalling that the ruling will effectively eliminate abortion access throughout the South when the ban takes effect in 30 days. Hope is found in a separate decision issued on the s  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, April 3 -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following statement on April 2, 2024, by Wisconsin State Director Wendy Strout: * * * Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, hailed Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers for living up to his promise to LGBTQ+ youth and vetoing two blatantly discriminatory bills targeting transgender kids in the state. AB 377, which he vetoed today,  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- The Sunrise Movement issued the following news release: Sunrise Movement has continued its support for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza by calling youth voters in the lead up to the April 2nd primary in Wisconsin. This follows mobilization by Sunrise volunteers in Michigan and other states with uncommitted on the ballot. This effort for voters to vote uninstructed in Wisconsin is the latest effort by progressives to show the Biden administration that its current leadership   more