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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 2011 Wisconsin protests were a series of demonstrations in the state of Wisconsin in the United States beginning in February and involving as many as 100,000 protesters [3] opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also called the "Wisconsin Budget Repair bill."
This session was the start of eight years of unified Republican control of the governor's office and both chambers of the legislature. 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 ...
Protesters in Wisconsin kept the heat on Republican lawmakers in that Midwestern state over the weekend, demanding that the legislature drop a provision in Gov. Scott Walker's "budget repair" bill ...
(The Center Square) – A new report indicates Wisconsin will have a surplus of $4.3 billion at the end of the fiscal year, more than the nearly $4 billion previously estimated.
Using that approach, Wisconsin Policy Forum projected the state will have $838 million in surplus above base spending over the next two years as opposed to the Report: Wisconsin will have less ...
The Wisconsin Assembly passed the bill one day later by a vote of 53–42. After the Assembly passed the bill, Walker released a statement in which he "applaud[ed] all members of the Assembly for showing up, debating the legislation and participating in democracy". [123] Walker signed the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill into law on March 11, 2011 ...
Wisconsin departments have requested $53.8 billion next fiscal year and $55.8 billion in fiscal 2026-27, an 8.8% increase in spending for the first year and then an additional 3.7% increase for ...