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Participatory budgeting started in Porto Alegre, Brazil and has expanded to cities such as Chicago and Seattle. But what does it look like in practice? Eau Claire is the first city in Wisconsin to incorporate participatory budgeting.

A proposal to make tuition free at all University of Wisconsin System schools for students with family incomes under $60,000 did not make it through the state budget process.

Wisconsin recently passed its biennial state budget. Despite some major disagreements, Gov. Tony Evers signed the Republican-authored budget last week. But the budget is not without controversy on both sides of the aisle.

Gov. Tony Evers signed the Republican-written state budget Thursday, enacting a two-year spending plan that includes a $2 billion income tax cut while making 50 partial vetoes.

The Wisconsin Senate has passed the state budget and sent the $87 billion spending plan on to Gov. Tony Evers. The Senate passed the document on a 23-9 vote Wednesday evening. The Assembly approved the budget after about eight hours of debate Tuesday.

The $2.6 billion in federal relief being sent to Wisconsin schools for pandemic-related costs is backfiring when it comes to the biennial state budget.

School advocates are complaining that the Republican-authored state budget doesn't commit enough state aid to education even though the federal government is set to pump billions in coronavirus relief aid into Wisconsin districts.

The joint finance committee has wrapped up its work on Wisconsin's next biennial budget and now it’s expected to go to the full Legislature for a vote. Republicans who control the committee finished by proposing a $3.3 billion income and property tax cut.

The Wisconsin Legislature’s budget-writing committee has finished its work on the state's next two-year spending plan, paving the way for the Senate and Assembly to vote on it later this month. The Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee took its final votes on the budget Thursday.

The state is expected to take in $4.4 billion more than previously projected and it will be up to Democrats and Republicans in Madison to decide how to use this money to address the problems facing Wisconsin.