A Depressing Start For the Kids Of Milwaukee County
In Identity Theft of CreditGuru (March 8, 2010 3:09 pm)
The year 1999 saw hard times for families and especially kids in Milwaukee county. With financial complications troubling society at the time, countless families were split between making a decision on choosing Milwaukee Chapter 7 or Milwaukee Debt Settlement plan to cope up with their bankruptcy. Despite the best effort of employed families in the county, many of them had salaries under the poverty line. This fact is in accord with Wisconsin state tax returns. According to a census carried out that year, the calculated figure of children living in such families was found to approach 59,100. There was another spectrum of so called “Near poverty” families who were employed with a salary of approximately 105-185% above the recognized poverty level. The census showed that another startling number of 53,800 children were observed to live in those families.
Further Studying the records, it shows another interesting discovery. In the “extreme poverty” range, the figure of children of employed families was seen to decline. At the same time this figure was rising in the “Near Poverty” spectrum. The decline and increase were 3% and 6% respectively. The complication with families facing the criteria of “Near Poverty” is that they are less likely to get public care for their children and avail food stamps or medical insurance, for which amenities they are highly suitable.
In 1998, income tax credits which were earned by the state aided about 52,081 families bringing 16,800 county children out of the poverty spectrum. But these declare rates dropped in 1999 and eligible families with credits approaching 5,731 dollars failed to claim their share. In 1998, a heavy figure of about 27 million dollars in federal and tax credits of the state continued to be unclaimed. On the bright side, the number of working families had rose from 1993 to 1999. Unfortunately such increase did not benefit the kids much and the figure of kids being served appropriately predicted to be 28,000 lower than the figure in 1993.
Families comprising only a father or a mother dominated the charts. Their figure had neared 49% of all families existing in the county. Putting it in layman terms, one of every three single-parent-families in the employment spectrum had earnings below the poverty line by 185%! These sad figures readily speak for themselves. You can imagine the sort of hardship the children living in this county must be coming across.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. The state of Wisconsin has taken notice of such numbers and has been striving to improve the lifestyle of the miserable kids living there. A fine example to demonstrate this is the existence of three medical insurance programs accessible to children living in families of low income. Medicaid (MA) has been made accessible to families meeting the criteria of eligibility defined in July 1996. Another program named Healthy Start, helps by supplying medical coverage for the families that have pregnant women or children of age 6 years. A Badger Care Program is for uninsured families failing to meet the criteria of the above.
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