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Volunteers in Service to America: Congresswoman Gwen Moore leads 50th anniversary celebration

MILWAUKEE — This year marks the 50th anniversary of Volunteers in Service to America — and in Milwaukee, Congresswoman Gwen Moore is leading the celebration. Congresswoman Moore is a VISTA alumna from 1986. The VISTA program has placed 215,000 volunteers in communities across the country since it was founded. Moore says the program is a […]

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Community Leaders Call on Congress to Renew School Meals Programs

As the school year approaches, Milwaukee’s summer meal programs for children are ending. Now some districts are watching Congress to see whether it renews the program for low income students. The Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act is set to expire at the end of September. The program provides healthy meals, even though they can cost more.

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Congresswoman To Introduce ‘Very Narrow’ Gun Control Bill This Week

Badger Guns has a bad reputation. Before selling the weapon that eventually shot two police officers in the face, the Milwaukee firearm dealer had racked up 130 federal gun regulation violations in nearly two years. Coincidentally or not, the store has one of the worst records in the country of selling guns that are later

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House Dems to offer Ex-Im bill

Top Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee plan to introduce legislation reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank’s charter, which is set to expire on June 30.  Democratic Reps. Gwen Moore (Wis.), Maxine Waters (Calif.) and Denny Heck (Wash.) are working on the bill, according to an email Moore’s chief of staff, Minh Ta, sent to senior

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President Obama fires up Milwaukee crowd for Mary Burke

MILWAUKEE — With exactly one week until Election Day, President Barack Obama campaigned in Milwaukee with Mary Burke on Tuesday evening.

The president visited North Division High School, a school located in a predominantly African-American ward that gave him 99 percent of the vote in 2012. The crowd, estimated at 3,547 by the Milwaukee fire inspector, filled the school’s field house, occasionally erupting into cheers of “Mary!” and “Obama.”

“This is ground zero,” said Avis Wright, a Milwaukee resident, of the school and its surrounding community.

She and Teresa Brewer said Burke embraced the president’s support in the nick of time. Tuesday’s visit was Obama’s third trip to Wisconsin during the course of the gubernatorial race, but the first time the two appeared together in public. They spoke on the phone during his first visit and met privately when he returned.

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'Eleanor's Hope' Puts Retirement Gap into Races

WOMENSENEWS–As the midterm election heads into its final weeks, advocates for women’s financial security are girding up for another round of battles over Social Security and Medicare, the age-old safety net programs upon which women disproportionately depend.

The Washington-based National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare launched a national initiative Oct. 9 to create grassroots support for ending the gender gap in retirement benefits to decrease the nearly 11 percent poverty rate among senior women, which is 50 percent higher than that of male retirees.

Called “Eleanor’s Hope”–in honor of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt who championed passage of the Social Security Act in 1935–the initiative proposes sweeping changes to modernize the system to reflect women’s contributions as breadwinners as well as family caregivers.

“Women have a lot at stake in November’s election and beyond,” said Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, last week at a press conference organized by the committee in Washington, D.C. “Although Social Security is vitally important to all Americans, it is especially important to women because they live longer than do men, have more health care needs and receive less in Social Security benefits because they worked in low-wage jobs or took time out of the workforce for caregiving.”

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Wisc.’s Mary Burke Stressing Education and Jobs

Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor Mary Burke stopped in Milwaukee on September 29, delivering a campaign speech that stressed
education and jobs to a crowd of 1,000 folks in the downtown Wisconsin Center.

Burke’s speech was flanked with the words of two iconic African-American women, Congresswoman Gwen Moore and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Burke’s main slogan “A New Direction for Wisconsin.” stresses her record as a private sector job creator in her father’s Wisconsin-based company Trek Bicycles. Burke, a Harvard MBA, stated that Scott Walker’s 2010 promise to create 250,000 jobs in the state in four years has fallen far short.

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