Once again today, a couple of stories landed on our desks that were more related than they first appeared.
The first, from a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Alliance for Excellent Education, produced a study showing if every Wisconsin student in the class of 2005-2006 graduates from high school, the state would save $202 million in lifetime health costs. The second, from the UW-Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy, found that 178,000 Wisconsin families need public health or other benefits despite having year-round jobs.