Despite low unemployment rates and other positive economic signs, childhood poverty is on the rise in Wisconsin, and the Chippewa Valley is not immune, which is why JONAH – an acronym for Joining Our Neighbors, Advancing Hope – is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, faith-based organization focused on addressing poverty and injustice in the Chippewa Valley. Its parent organization, WISDOM, and three other statewide groups – Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Kids Forward, and the Wisconsin Council of Churches – are engaged in a multi-year campaign called End Child Poverty Wisconsin. [Read the full article here]
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