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Originally Posted by Minte
And to Walkers credit. In the last year our economy has added nearly 35,000 jobs. It's been suggested had this recall election had not happened there would've been many more.
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April 19th, 2012
The up-and-down pattern of the state's monthly jobs report continued in March 2012. This time, the numbers took a dip, showing Wisconsin lost an estimated 4,300 private sector jobs.
Additionally, the state Department of Workforce Development revised up by 2,100 the number of jobs added in February. The new report says that there were 6,100 jobs added in that month.
We are using the monthly numbers to measure progress by Gov. Scott Walker on achieving his top campaign promise: The state adding 250,000 private sector jobs by the end of his four-year term.
The monthly jobs numbers are preliminary estimates and are compiled by survey data.
The new report puts state private-sector employment at 2,329,500, compared with 2,323,600 when Walker took office --
an increase of 5,900 jobs. That leaves the governor with 244,100 jobs left to reach 250,000.
Walker has taken a love-hate approach to the monthly jobs numbers. He has celebrated increases with news conferences and television ads. And when they"ve declined, members of his administration have criticized the figures as being sloppy.
This month, the administration put an entirely new spin on the numbers.
For the first time, they discussed an indicator called Help Wanted OnLine, compiled by the Conference Board, a national business organization. That indicator, state economists said, suggests that the job numbers will increase for the month of April.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/...0000-new-jobs/
Of course you conveniently leave out the fact that Wisconsin is almost dead last in the nation in job growth in 2011. The only state with less job growth than Wisconsin is fucking Wyoming