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		<title>Medicaid, Medicare Cuts Hurt All, by Pam Fricke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Pam Fricke We were promised the Trump Administration would not cut Medicare or Medicaid benefits.  President Trump himself said it over and over and over again. Well, folks, brace yourself for more broken promises. You will see big changes that will hit home here in St. Croix County. All Wisconsin Republican members of Congress, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Devastating Cuts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Congress is proposing $880 Billion in cuts to the federal budget. The proposed cuts to Medicaid and the SNAP (food assistance) Program will be devasting for so many. The population hurt the most will he Children and our seniors.  It will have a catastrophic impact on Medicaid. Medicaid goes by many names here in Wisconsin, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Community Outreach Task Force</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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	Outreach Fundraiser Hello all,  We need your help. Please donate. (Links below) We’re gearing up for the winter season. Over the last 5 years we have been making a positive difference for those in need in the community, helping them to survive in the harsh winter elements. We are the only 100% volunteer-based outreach group [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>HUMAN RIGHTS MARCH</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; &#160; Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 2 PM on the sidewalk around the 400 block. &#160; Come join Central Wisconsin&#8217;s PEACEFUL protest. A place for us to all come together and let the world know we WON&#8217;T BE SILENT! &#160; A place to fight for women&#8217;s rights, BIPOC rights, reproductive rights, LQBTQIA+ rights, disability [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Lifeline in the Wake of Tragedy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you think Social Security is just for when you get old&#8230;. Here&#8217;s an ad to watch and share:]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>COMMUNITY OUTREACH TASK FORCE~&#8221;The Marty Bus&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Little did I know when I started volunteering here how much this would grow on me. There is great need in our comunity and often those with the greatest needs are shunned. The problem of unhoused is not going away by wishing it away or incarcerating it away. And shame on those who say &#8220;not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Help Reduce to Homelessness in Wausau</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean Fisher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Individuals without housing are a part of many communities across the country. Unhoused people face challenges that are varied and not easily addressed. As long as their housing  and other individual needs remain unmet, some collisions with the interests of the broader community are likely. Won’t our city and county benefit most if we don’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Northcentral Chapter of WI Poor People&#8217;s Campaign</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trenton Ebel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 04:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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	After attending the Poor People&#8217;s Campaign led Poor and low-wage workers&#8217; assembly and Moral march on Washington and to the polls on June 18th, I have had cause to reflect on where I stand at this moment in history. I have come to believe humanity ebbs and flows as a tide, and on that day, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Poor People’s Campaign Heads to the Polls With an Agenda to lift From the Bottom</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/the-poor-peoples-campaign-heads-to-the-polls-with-an-agenda-to-lift-from-the-bottom/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 04:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/the-poor-peoples-campaign-heads-to-the-polls-with-an-agenda-to-lift-from-the-bottom/"><img title="The Poor People’s Campaign Heads to the Polls With an Agenda to lift From the Bottom" src="https://www.middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ppc-one-225x300.jpg" alt="The Poor People’s Campaign Heads to the Polls With an Agenda to lift From the Bottom" width="225" height="300" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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	Campaign demands meeting with Biden, pledges to register poor &#38; low-income voters, will return to DC in September Following a powerful and passionate march and moral assembly of poor and low-wage workers and faith leaders that drew thousands of people from every state in the nation, the Poor People’s Campaign has announced its plans for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Poor People&#8217;s Campaign rallies to Washington D.C.</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/poor-peoples-campaign-rallies-to-washington-d-c/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 04:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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	We will have a full story in our next edition of Middle Wisconsin.  In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. organized low-income Americans of different backgrounds in a march on Washington known as the &#8220;Poor People&#8217;s Campaign.&#8221; Over fifty-years later, thousands of protesters gathered Saturday to deliver that same message at the Poor People&#8217;s and Low-Wage [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sunsetting Social Security</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 04:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party is running on an agenda, proposed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Senator Rick Scott, which would sunset all federal legislation in five years. This means that the Republican Party is pushing an agenda that would sunset Medicare and Social Security. Shame on them! It is hard to believe Rick Scott [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>UW-Platteville cannabis program is growing as legal status in Wisconsin remains hazy</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/uw-platteville-cannabis-program-is-growing-as-legal-status-in-wisconsin-remains-hazy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Redman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Wisconsin Examiner February 3, 2022 The status of legal cannabis in Wisconsin, whether for recreational or medicinal use, remains up in the air, but that hasn’t stopped UW-Platteville’s cannabis program from growing. This legislative session, there have been both successes and setbacks for proponents of legal weed in the state. In Gov. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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