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2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill or the Wisconsin Budget Adjustment Act, [1] [2] is a controversial law enacted by the 100th Wisconsin Legislature which significantly limited the rights and compensation of state and local government employees in Wisconsin.
The new report anticipates the state collecting $894.3 million in general fund tax collections over three fiscal years starting with the current year, above the $891.3 million projected in the ...
Asked if Illinois, with an anticipated $3 billion budget deficit for the next fiscal year, should have a similar effort, state Rep. Marcus Evans, Jr., D-Chicago, said not so fast.
Without such concessions, city officials would be forced to cut deeply into other services to make up for the cuts in state aid included in Gov. Scott Walker's 2011–'13 state budget. Walker's budget-repair bill would require most state and local government and school district employees to pay at least 5.8% of their pension costs and 12.6% of ...
(The Center Square) – The top Republican in the Wisconsin Senate is promising to strip out any policy in the governor's new budget. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu was a guest on UpFront ...
Wisconsin faced an anticipated deficit of approximately $3.6 billion in the 2012–2013 budget cycle [99] [140] which must be balanced according to state law. Walker's proposed budget cut $834 million in state aid for K–12 education, which would be a 7.9% reduction from the prior budget.
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was scheduled to begin a statewide public listening tour on Monday before he is scheduled to submit his proposed state biennial budget in early ...
In this session, new governor Scott Walker pushed through the controversial 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, referred to at the time as the "Budget Repair Bill". The most controversial provision of the law was the stripping of state employees of collective bargaining rights.