Here & Now; 831

February 12, 2010

Here and Now, Pay day lending businesses have mushroomed. Responsible Lending Act heads to the Assembly floor. Assembly Democrats touted the need for their reform proposal. State Representative Donna Seidel SOT, Wisconsins new bill that aims to regulate paycheck loan companies. Jennifer Johnson, the Wisconsin coordinator for the Center for Responsible Lending, joins us via satellite from Washington, D.C., John Koskinen, chief economist - from the Dept. of Revenue goes over a new Wisconsin Economic Outlook report, Former U.S. Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson was back in Wisconsin working on his own ideas to reform health care - let insurance companies bid for it, The current state budget calls for the Department of Transportation to spend 3.5 billion maintaining highways plus 841 million for local roads. Yet consensus among transportation advocates, and legislators, is the state is not spending ENOUGH. In 2006 a bi-partisan legislative study pegged under-funding at over 650 million dollars every year. 2006 , by the way, was also the year after legislature ended automatic increases in the gasoline tax. In part one of a series, Here and Now Producer Art Hackett reports there's a disconnect over how we pay for the roads which connect us, Capitol Insight. Shawn and Fred on set. Single topic: Politics of paycheck loan legislation.