{"id":1359,"date":"2011-02-25T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2011-02-25T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:22:49","slug":"la-follette-school-budget-forum-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"La Follette School Budget Forum Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The policy and budgetary implications of Wisconsin&#8217;s budget repair bill will  be explored at a La Follette School of Public Affairs forum today, Friday, February  25, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in 114 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.map.wisc.edu\/?initObj=bdg_VanHs&amp;z=70&amp;x=-0.235145&amp;y=-0.123824\" target=\"_blank\">Van  Hise Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Public affairs professors and a policy practitioner will bring their  expertise to bear on the policy choices facing the state of Wisconsin, which is  in the national spotlight as the Legislature and protesters debate budget  proposals.<\/p>\n<p>The  event will include comments from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafollette.wisc.edu\/facultystaff\/affiliates.html#canon\" target=\"_blank\">David Canon<\/a>, La Follette    School faculty affiliate and professor of political science<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpri.org\/pages\/about.html#lightbourn\" target=\"_blank\">George Lightbourn<\/a>,    president, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute; 1976 La Follette School alum;    and former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Administration<\/li>\n<li>Don Nelson, director, <a href=\"http:\/\/staterelations.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison State    Relations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafollette.wisc.edu\/facultystaff\/smeeding-timothy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Smeeding<\/a>, arts and    sciences distinguished professor of public affairs and director, Institute of    Research on Poverty<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafollette.wisc.edu\/facultystaff\/reschovsky-andrew.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Reschovsky<\/a>,    professor of public affairs and applied economics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafollette.wisc.edu\/facultystaff\/witte-john.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Witte<\/a>, professor of public    affairs and political science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students, faculty, staff and members of the public are welcome to attend.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The policy and budgetary implications of Wisconsin&#8217;s budget repair bill will be explored at a La Follette School of Public Affairs forum today, Friday, February 25, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in 114 Van Hise Hall. Public affairs professors&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1359\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-budget-repair-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}