Here & Now, Ep. 1302 (2014-07-18)

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Here & Now, immigrant children flooding into US from central amercia, Father Dave Bergner is Executive Director of Catholic Charities of Milwaukee, an agency FEMA has asked to help find living spaces for non-documented children and mothers who have found their way from central america across the U.S. border. He joins us from Marquette University poly-com location. B-roll of immigrant kids in Texas from Newshour, policy regarding highly trained foreign born workers, Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still joins us in the Madison studio to speak about immigration policy that promote policies to keep the United States and its citizens competitive in a global economy.' Not just Silicon Valley that needs to hold on to highly trained foreign-born workers. Wisconsin, too, could use their skills and talent. badgercare and federal exhange numbers, Less than a third of the people who lost state Medicaid coverage under the BadgerCare program signed up for healthcare through the federal exchange. The Walker administration had a goal of getting 90-percent covered through the online market-place. Nearly 63-thousand people lost Medicaid coverage because their income was above the poverty…

Directors & creators

Wisconsin Public Television

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Dave Bergner, Catholic Charities of Milwaukee, Tom Still, Wisconsin Technology Council, Mary Burke, Scott Walker, Central American immigration, BadgerCare, Federal Health Insurance Marketplace, Abbott Laboratories, unaccompanied immigrant children, Wisconsin politics, US immigration policy, Medicaid

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