La Tonya Johnson: “The share of residents age 65 or older is growing rapidly.”

“And the public defenders were assigned over 12,000 cases in 2025 alone. Now Wisconsin is aging. We're getting old, y'. All. So Wisconsin population has been on the decline since 2020. The share of residents age 65 or older is growing rapidly. Wisconsin is losing young adults, especially between the ages of of 18 and 26. At one point we had lost over 100,000 26 year olds in a 10 year period.” (27:52–27:56)

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