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According to Christine Harris, president of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, the budget repair bill has several provisions that will directly impact the capacity of the nonprofit arts community to serve the state and the greater Milwaukee area.

Affluent communities receive less shared revenue from the state than lower-income communities. So, cities such as Brookfield will likely be less affected by Walker's plans to cut shared revenue to local governments.

Walker's proposed biennial state budget, which will cut shared revenue and state aid to municipalities across the state, could cause significant short- and medium-term pain in communities such as Milwaukee, which receive large amounts of funding from the state.

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce has supported Walker's plan to cut public spending and hold the line on taxes.

Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year state budget plan will have significant impact on every man, woman and child in Wisconsin.

It will affect the roads you drive on. It will affect the schools your children attend. It will affect the colleges your future employees are studying in. It will affect the services you receive from your city and county. It will affect the buses your employees or perhaps your customers ride on. It will affect the charities that assist your community.

As Walker prepares to close a projected $3.6 billion state deficit by cutting annual local shared revenues by $1 billion, a new normal will be felt by city and county governments, school districts and social agencies.

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FUEL Milwaukee, an organization dedicated to attracting and retaining talent in the Milwaukee region, is "adopting" eight local charities for 2011 as a strategy to increase employees' involvement in their community.

Call it the Great Recession 2.0. The private sector was struck by the Great Recession in 2008, incurring massive waves of plant closures, property foreclosures and layoffs.