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...Wisconsin State Fair had a welfare-caseload reduction contest, rural Marquette County (pop. about 13,000) would walk off with the blue ribbon. In a state that is fast shedding cases, Marquette's drop has been the steepest: down 91% in the past decade. And it's one of a handful of thinly populated counties that have got the number of "work-qualified" households on their welfare rolls down to a notable benchmark: zero...
Local boosters attribute Marquette's extremely low welfare use in part to a work ethic that runs strong in this Norman Rockwell patch of small towns and farms scattered across south-central Wisconsin. "You know what work is at a very young age on a farm," says Judi Mayer of the Montello Area Chamber of Commerce. But welfare professionals say a key factor is the attitude of the local welfare office. Marquette's social services department has, in director Kenneth Ramminger's words, "an expectation of work." His staff knows the employers in the region, and inquiries about welfare turn...
Twenty-seven years after he co-founded Earth Day, Wisconsin Secretary of State Douglas LaFollette came to speak at the Kennedy School of Government in honor of Earth Week...
...Indianapolis Colts: Jerry Wunsch, OT, Wisconsin. The Colts need a left tackle or else Captain Comeback, Jim Harbaugh, will keep going back...
These days, Pusey said, his primary activities are "reading and staying alive." Despite his joking, others at the celebration thought Pusey looked chipper for a man born before both World Wars and whose political adversary was Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican who assailed many Harvard professors during the Cold...