Just another way of WASTING taxpayer money. Like mentioned before, you don't need to study what is right in front of your eyes. The money wasted for this study could be used to help the people right now!

Standing in line at the grocery store last Friday night. Woman ahead of us with a toddler in the shopping cart seat and two more kids beside her. Unloading a cartfull of Mountain Dew, Fruit Loops, pudding cups, ice cream bars, gummyworms, Doritos, etc, etc, etc. It caught my eye as she also had a shrimp platter, two turkeys, and a giant ham in her cart. Just seemed like an odd assortment of food.
Anyway, the checker gets done scanning her items and POOF!.... Out comes the Wisconsin QUEST (food stamp) Card.
I can see helping the needy, but I can't stand for people that abuse every program out there and rely exclusively on hand outs for their every basic need.
I thought 'welfare' was for people that fell upon hard times, not for people that create their own hard times.
As for those two turkeys and that giant (I mean humongous) ham? I can't name the woman that walked out of the store with them, so I guess I can speculate that she was going to sell them off to someone else. I have witnessed cartfulls of beef roll out of Cub Foods on a Quest Card, before they closed. I mean, come on... It's so obvious.
And no, I'm not saying everyone using a Quest Card is corrupt that way. But some are, and that's known as welfare fraud. Trying to turn a profit with a Wisconsin Quest Card is just sick, and immoral.

I agree...how many studies need to take place to see what is happening right in front of our eyes. Poverty has existed for many years and it doesn't take a special task force to analyze it. I find it interesting that nothing was found in the research (as the article implies) for meaningful resolutions. Look around at all of the non-profit organizations that exist to help people in need. I hope the council doesn't spend money (if money is to be spent) that could be allocated for those organizations that already are in place. Solutions need to happen right now and not several months down the road when people have lost everything. Poverty is not just about the child. It includes the whole family.

I do believe in helping people in need. But the mission of the proposed task force is nothing new. The stated goals do nothing new. Organizations already exist that are targeting these visions and goals.

It is not illegal to live where the power has been shut off; however, if there are young children in the home and Social Services finds out about it, watch out! You will have more problems than you will know what to do with when they get involved!

I thought it was illegal to live where the power has been cut off? Isn't that the story we were getting just a few weeks ago?

I sure hope we as a community can do something to help the needy right now. Lots of people around here have had there power cut off- I know of three families living with no electricity. Two of these families have young kids.

I hope the "Vision 2020" doesn't mean they plan to just "study" the issue until the year 2020!
Children who are in families who have to make the choice of either pay the rent so they have a roof over their heads, or feed the family are in dire straits RIGHT NOW!
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I assume it is the other expression - having 20/20 vision. I don't really see anything in this article that shows they will find anything new. Good grief! How many committees need to "study" this crap? Its right in front of our eyes!