Dear Friends of ESTHER,
We have worked faithfully and diligently over this past year. Let’s take a step back and look at what happens when faith communities come together to build a community reflective of shared values within our faith traditions.
- We worked on treatment instead of prison. Outagamie County now has a drug court that works with nonviolent drug offenders to rehabilitate their lives, keep families together, and keep persons out of costly incarceration.
- We worked on education. All residents graduating from Wisconsin high schools are now eligible for in-state tuition rates in our state technical colleges and universities.
- We worked to have affordable and accessible health care. This work continues at both the state and national level.
- We worked to diminish predatory payday lending. Together with WISDOM affiliates across the state we have called for a cap on the over 500% interest rates charged by payday and title loan companies in our communities.
