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The Wisconsin senior employment program places low-income senior citizens in temporary jobs and subsidizes their $7.25 an hour wage. About 300 of Wisconsin’s most vulnerable residents participate in the program. For them, it’s the difference between making ends meet and being homeless.
The Evers administration just made the abrupt and unilateral decision to end the program, sending local coordinators scrambling to head off 300 individual tragedies.
It’s unknown how this decision was made. Adding to the mystery, Evers never even mentioned the program in his budget request, and the legislature has just gotten started writing the next state budget. You can’t blame trump. He hasn’t touched the federal funds tied to the program. In fact, congress is still working on the next federal budget.
No, it’s pretty clear that this decision was made entirely within the Evers administration without even consulting all the major stakeholders.
It just goes to show how bad government can screw up even a simple charitable program – and why the legislature really needs to take a closer look at exactly what’s in and is not in the state budget.
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