Written by Paul Demuth, Randall Lawton, Judy Nagel and Others
Having found chilling similarities between poverty and alcohol abuse, BACC convened a task force that included leaders with specialized knowledge of substance abuse and current methods to combat it. This report meant to launch the process to change the current situation. [Click Alcohol Abuse in Brown County (2010) to read full report.]
The report offers recommendations in the areas of children, healthcare, housing, neighborhood services, transportation and more. [Click Poverty in Brown County to read the whole article.]
Written by Noel Halvorsen, Randall Lawton and Others
More than 10% of the Brown County population was known to live in poverty at this time – and the problem was growing. The focus of this study was to discover what efforts best help those in poverty to become self sufficient. [Click Poverty in Brown County (2007) to read the full paper.]