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The Department of Health and Social Services was renamed the Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS), on July 1, 1996. In 2008, various programs of the DHFS were combined with others from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, to create a new Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. The remaining health-specific ...
By the time of the New Deal in the 1930s, Wisconsin had already pioneered a number of public welfare programs which would soon become national policy, including aid to children and pensions for the elderly. "The Wisconsin Children's Code," (1929 Wisconsin Act 439), was considered one of the most comprehensive in the nation. The state's initial ...
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is an agency of the Wisconsin state government responsible for providing services to Wisconsin workers, employers, and job-seekers to meet Wisconsin's workforce needs.
The service said it anticipates an uptick in ballots being sent by mail in the coming days and said its employees are working to ensure that each person who chooses to cast their ballot via the ...
UW Health serves over 950,000 patients per year, and employs over 24,000 employees across seven hospitals, 4 medical centers, 90+ clinics/specialty clinics, 3 urgent cares, 4 behavioral health centers and 1 community service center., making it the second-largest employer in Madison (after UW–Madison) and in Wisconsin.
In 1975, the Wisconsin legislature passed a law requiring that service insurance corporations be legally separate from the parent professional society. [ 3 ] In order to comply with the legislation, on April 27, 1977, WPS ended its relationship with the Wisconsin Medical Society, becoming an independent not-for-profit corporation.
State of Wisconsin 1997-1998 Blue Book. Madison: Wisconsin Legislature Joint Committee on Legislative Organization, 1997, pp. 99-172. Donoghue, James R. "Local Government in Wisconsin". In Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. The State of Wisconsin 1979-1980 Blue Book. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Administration, 1979, pp. 95-310.
Milwaukee has a mayor-council form of government with a strong-mayor plan. The city underwent a transition from a civil service to a cabinet form of governance in 1988, following the election of then Mayor John Norquist. While this gave the mayor greater control of the day-to-day operations of the city, the Common Council retains almost ...