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  By Bill Glauber and Don Walker   Waukesha — President Barack Obama took his road tour Thursday to GE's Waukesha gas engines plant, where he touted job training, talked up a rebounding economy and contended that 2014 could be "a breakthrough year for America." "After five years of hard work, digging ourselves out of the worst… Read more »

  Congress is set to approve $9 billion in cuts to the food stamp program even as a record number of Americans live in poverty. By Erika Eichelberger  On Wednesday morning, Republicans won a years-long battle over whether to slash or spare food stamps when the House passed the farm bill, a $500 billion piece of legislation that funds nutrition and agriculture… Read more »

  By Mike Lowe  WAUKESHA (WITI) – From Washington, D.C. to Wisconsin — President Barack Obama is taking his “State of the Union” ideas for a road test. On Wednesday, January 29th — the day after the SOTU, President Obama was in Maryland and Pennsylvania — and on Thursday, he heads to Wisconsin. On Tuesday night, President Obama… Read more »

   By Bob Bach  Fifty years ago this month, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty,” part of what he coined “The Great Society.” It would provide economic and educational opportunities for everyone, especially minority populations. Parts of LBJ’s Great Society… Read more »

 By Mike Lowe MILWAUKEE (WITI) — President Barack Obama is set to deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, January 28th. The speech comes just two days before a presidential visit to the Milwaukee area.President Obama plans to act on income inequality in his State of the Union speech. He will unveil an executive order to raise the minimum wage for… Read more »

  By Shakara Robinson  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Obama said saving the middle class is his top priority during Tuesday night's State of the Union Address. Massive shifts in technology and global competition have hit the middle class hard, the president said, and he'll do what he can to make things right. Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris… Read more »

  Written by Donovan Slack  WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama hammered away at economic inequality during his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation reacted along partisan lines with Democrats embracing the speech and Republicans panning it. The Badger State lawmakers’ reaction was a… Read more »

  At least two Wisconsin Republicans are fuming over President Obama's State-of-the-Union speech, hours before he delivers it tonight.  Congressman Reid Ribble of Sherwood says the Democrat Obama plans to take a partisan, campaign-style approach instead of extending an olive branch.  Wisconsin Senate Republican Ron Johnson of Oshkosh tells the Gannett News Service… Read more »

  By Joe Kaiser   Rep. Gwen Moore (D), a ’73 Marquette graduate who represents the area covering Marquette’s campus in Congress, talked with the Marquette Tribune Thursday about health care, student loans and other issues affecting college students. Moore was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2004. Marquette Tribune: The biggest… Read more »

  Written by Lisa Neff  “We shall not rest until that war is won,” Lyndon Johnson said 50 years ago, declaring “an unconditional war on poverty.” But from time to time, administration to administration, there has been rest and there has been retreat in the fight. And always there has been a feud between the major parties on how best to wage… Read more »