Bridgit Bowden / WPR, Author at Wisconsin Watch

Medicaid expansion and health care affordability are on many people’s minds. WPR found that health care accessibility and affordability are particularly important to Wisconsin’s caregiving workforce.

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Open and Shut: Podcast preview

Wisconsinites share how they are coping and adapting one year into the COVID-19 pandemic

‘I’ve been very fortunate’: Living on campus, Azul Kothari hopes UW-Madison will prevent COVID-19 outbreaks with new testing protocols.

‘It’s a scary transition’: After pandemic closes doors at bars and restaurants, Amy Moreland carves a new career path

Rosemary Kraemer, beloved mother, grandmother and ‘GG’, dies of COVID-19 at 74

‘Winter is coming, and a lot of doors are going to be shut’: Restaurant and bar workers in peril as weather grows cold and COVID-19 keeps spreading

‘It doesn’t look like there’s an end in sight to this’: Pandemic drags on as $600 unemployment lifeline nears expiration

Introducing dairy farmer Bryan Voegeli: ‘Our Family Has Been Through A Lot’

‘Day 54 and finally some financial relief’: Madison Bartender Amy Moreland on waiting for federal unemployment aid

Introducing Amy Moreland: Madison bartender