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1. Goodwill's W2 Agency: Employment Solutions--4030 N. 29th St., Milwaukee, WI 53216 (and 6550 N. 76, Milwaukee 53223)
2001 contract: $87.5 million plus $6.1 million in bonuses to "serve" 1,713 cash cases and 1,169 "case managements."
($54,641 per cash case)

            Goodwill admitted "misspending" nearly $500,000 of their Wisconsin welfare money for work in other states.  This is felony welfare fraud.  Goodwill regularly illegally denies money to mothers in crisis in order to generate the $9.7 million in profits they netted during their initial contract period.  Goodwill, a wealthy $1.6 billion corporation founded to help people with disabilities, exploits and abuses disabled women and children through its for-proft W2 program.
            Shortly after the Welfare Warriors' Photo Bus Tour and the Legislative Audit Bureau report, Goodwill "voluntarily" gave up their W2 contract effective December 2001 because of community dissatisfaction."  YW Works and UMOS have taken over Goodwill's W2 sites on 29th St and 76th Sts respectively.

2. OIC--2947 N. Martin Luther King Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53212 (and 6091 N. Teutonia, Milwauke 53206).  Director William Clay, (414) 908-3302.  2001 contract: $47.1 million plus $3.5 million in bonuses to "serve" 1,092 cash cases and 573 "case managements."  ($46,765 per cash case.)

         OIC, African-American owned, is Milwaukee's oldest privatized welfare program, having received a JOBS' contract well before the start of W2.  OIC's claim to fame is having co-opted formerly fiery rebels Mike McGee and Doris Green by funding McGee's daily radio show with welfare funds and hiring Green as W2 director.

3. UMOS (United Migrant Opportunity Services --928 W. Mitchell St.  Director Lupe Martinez, (414) 389-6002. 2001 Contract: $37 million plus $2.2 million in bonuses to "serve" 844 cash cases and 597 "case managements." ($46,446 per cash case.)
            Formed to work with and help Mexican migrant workers, this group morphed into just another greedy W2 agency that hurts Latina mamas instead of helping them.

4. YW Works--1915 N. Martin Luther King Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53212, Director Julia Taylor.  2001 contract: $36.5 million plus $2.6 million in bonuses to "serve" 609 cash cases and 393 "case managements." ($64,203 per cash case.)
            Milwaukee's YWCA, formerly a feminist organization, has forgotten their Christian and Women's mission.  YW started out a JOBS program that forced moms to quit college to take YW's 6-week nurses' aide training or three-month typing course.  YW graduated to a W2 contract and purchased Generation Plastics Factory to benefit from the free forced labor of women in crisis, primarily women with disabilities.

5. Maximus--1304 S. 70th St., West Allis, WI 53214.  Director Jerry Stepaniak (414) 607-7596.  2001 contract: $45.1 million and $3.2 million in bonuses to "serve" 1,068 cash cases and 524 "case managements." ($45,224 per cash case.)
         Maximus came to town to make profit off the poor.  Maximus admitted to spending $500,000 of Wisconsin welfare money in New York  to secure a welfare contract, and in Wisconsin on "disallowed meals," social activities, a fatherhood summit by Hudson Institute, a stage at a French festival, performers, and fanny packs with their company logo.  In addition to GREED, this is felony welfare FRAUD!

6. Private Industry Council (PIC)--101 W. Pleasant, Milwaukee, WI.  Director Gerard Randall Dr, (414) 225-2360.
            PIC receives $5.7 million as "oversight coordinator" of W2 contracts.  Yet PIC denies any control--both fiscal and procedural--over W2 agencies who are "self-employed contractors."  The purpose of PIC's $5.7 million contract remains a mystery.

Milwaukee County Human Services--1220 W. Vliet, Milwaukee, WI 53233; Director Ralph Hollman (414) 289-6816.
            MCHS was the welfare department before welfare was privatized.  They receive $0 in W2 funds.  Yet all of the hundreds of County welfare workers, supervisors and five CEO's retained their jobs after the cash benefit system was taken over by private agencies!  The County administers only foodstamps and MA, yet 75% of eligible families do not receive foodstamps.  What the hundreds of County employees do now is another mystery!

• Infant mortality increased in Wisconsin by 10% since the start of W2 in 1997.  In Milwaukee's African American community infant mortality increased by 37% since 1997.(Start Smart Milwaukee, 1442 N. Farwell, Milwaukee, WI 53202)
• Welfare costs increased from $538 million for 299,700 people in 1986 to $710 million for less than 20,000 people in 2001. (Wis Briefs 98-4 April '98 and Wisconsin Fiscal Audit Bureau 4/01)
• 3000 Milwaukee families suffer court evictions each year now compared to 700 before W2 began. (Apartment Association of SE Wisconsin)
• 35,366 families sought food from food pantries in 1999 compared to 26,813 in 1995. (Hunger Task Force of MIlwaukee.)
• Both Maximus and Goodwill's Employment Solutions admitted to "improperly spending" (frauding) half a million dollars each of Wisconsin welfare dollars on non-welfare related projects, including trips to, and work in, other states.
• Only one quarter of eligible Wisconsin families now receive foodstamps.
• One third of former W2 recipients in Wisconsin had no income to report.  66.2% of former W2 families were below the poverty level, even after combining state and federal tax credits.
• By July 2000, 26.1% of the 2,129 former participants who left the program during the first three months of 1998 returned to the program and had their cases reopened.
• Statewide 31.4% of W2 participants had their checks sanctioned (reduced ) in 1999.  Milwaukee County's sanction rates have consistently been 10% higher than int he rest of the state.  Milwaukee's private W2 agencies are allowed to keep all sanctioned money.  The other 67 W2 agencies in Wisconsin must return the mothers' sanctioned money to the state.
• At least 35 new mothers were illegally sanctioned from July through December 2000 by Milwaukee W2 agencies.  Maximus and Goodwill issued the most illegal sanctions against new mothers, amounting to more than 1/3 of their monthly benefits.
• YW Works has the highest sanction rate, sanctioning 48% of clients an average of 45.1% of their benefits.
• One of the most significant declines in caseloads has been among mothers of infants.
• W2 agencies requested extensions for 53.6% of cases outside Milwaukee.  Milwaukee's private W2 agencies requested extensions for only 13.4% of their clients.
• Wisconsin's W2 agencies' profits totaled $65.1 millionthrough 1999.  Goodwill received $9.5 million in profit.  Milwaukee County paid out $2.7 in bonuses through 1999.
• .3% of W2 clients were enrolled in technical college in 2000 and 13.8% in any job training.