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In 1969, conservative Wisconsin state legislators spearheaded efforts to cut the state welfare budget and reduce benefits to the state’s poor. Milwaukee would have been particularly affected by the cuts because it contained a disproportionate number of Wisconsin’s poverty stricken, …