Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs

And the main host, Michael Barbaro, is going to be in Madison on October 20th for an, an event at, uh, UW Madison.

The La Follette School of Public Affairs is having another event, and he is coming to talk about covering a polarized America.

But he's ...

I mean, it's been 10 years.

[laughs]

Yeah.

And so, and I got the chance through the partnership I have with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and La Follette School of Public Affairs, um, a chance to interview him yesterday.

And so we did about 25 minutes.

And the main host, Michael Barbaro, is going to be in Madison on October 20th for an, an event at, uh, UW Madison.

The La Follette School of Public Affairs is having another event, and he is coming to talk about covering a polarized America.

But he's, I mean, it's been 10 years.

So it's 2017.

[laughs]

Yeah.

And so, and I got the chance through the partnership I have with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and La Follette School of Public Affairs, um, a chance to interview him yesterday.

And so we did about 25 minutes.

Higher prices and the fate of Social Security are emerging as key issues in the midterm elections now less than three weeks away.

To help us break down what this adjustment means for Social Security recipients here in Wisconsin, we have Lindsay Jacobs, assistant professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW Madison.

Lindsay, thanks for joining us today.

Hi.

Um, and I think that that information will be out soon, but, um, yeah, it certainly cuts into the, the increase, um, that beneficiaries will receive.

receive.Talking about two numbers that came out this week, an increase in monthly Social Security payments next year aimed at keeping up with the cost of living, but hold on, the cost of living going up about the same amount.

Lindsay Jacobs is with us, La Follette School of Public Affairs assistant professor, and Devin Christensen, director of the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Brown County.

Devin, for a, a senior or a person with disabilities who relies i- in part at least on Social Security, struggling to make ends meet, what kind of reference, uh, resources, excuse me, are there in Brown County for them to, to try to get help?

Definitely.

And then just speaking of, uh, speaking in front of, like, a large group of people, you will be visiting UW Madison on October 20th at 7:00 p.m. and you'll be in conversation with Susan Yackee, who we also had on the show, she's lovely, uh, who's the director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs.

Mm-hmm.

And I wanted to know, you're discussing covering today's America.

I think we're going to have more tax cuts when it comes back to the Republican Party.

University of Wisconsin La Follette School of Public Affairs Economy Professor J. Michael Collins says in Wisconsin, sure, the unemployment rate is below the national average, but too many families don't bring home enough money.

In his words, economic indicators don't always tell the whole story of how Wisconsinites are coping or how they feel like they're coping when it comes to the economy.

There's things they can control and things they can't.