Interactive data: Job growth under Scott Walker

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/ct/data/interactive-data-job-growth-under-scott-walker/html_91c1d53c-86a3-11e2-8ee8-0019bb2963f4.html

Gov. Scott Walker famously promised during his 2010 campaign that he would bring 250,000 new jobs to Wisconsin by the end of his term in 2014. How's he doing? We're keeping track with this database.

see link:

[reteachinwi]

1. The marketeer waffles

"After running on the campaign promise he would add a quarter million jobs to Wisconsin’s private sector, Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday he believes his goal is not feasible."
http://badgerherald.com/news/2013/03/07/walker_backs_off_job.php#.UUeoXny9KSM

Maybe the iron mine isn't feasible either.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022529848

How about a presidential run Scooter?

[mojowork_n]

2. Will we really know -- next month some time?

In yesterday's Greater Milwaukee Committee Journal-Sentinel, comedian C. Schneider -- under the banner headline, "Walker vindicated on jobs," declared:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/schncol17-0094mis-198546381.html

Early in 2012, CES data said Wisconsin had lost 33,900 jobs in the previous year; revised QCEW numbers showed that the state had actually gained 23,321 jobs in 2011.

I think Capper had challenged those claims in an earlier Cognitive Dissidence post, "Walker, if you're gonna lie, Lie Big" when he pointed out:

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2013/03/walker-if-youre-gonna-lie-lie-big.html

There are a couple of other things missing from Walker's desperate damage control press release.

One is that despite his grossly exaggerated claims of job growth, the state's unemployment rate jumped from 6.7% up to 7%.

The other thing that Walker failed to mention, and will continue to fail to mention, is that the jobs he is "creating" are part-time, low wage jobs. Is it any wonder that the state's average income is dropping like a rock?

The only thing he'll have to run on his cutting taxes and lowering the state deficit. That is until someone mentions that he hasn't cut taxes and he is borrowing money like mad to cover up his ballooning deficit.

In comedian C. Schneider's column yesterday, the very last sentence of the last paragraph sort of belies that swaggering headline. Schneider admits, "On March 28, BLS will release the QCEW data for the last three months of 2012, which will provide an even more accurate picture of the jobs picture over the past year. Perhaps it will show Walker has found a good number of the 150,000 jobs that went missing while Doyle was governor."

I'm guessing it might take a few days or a week or two for someone to sit down and analyze the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) data released March 28th, to make sure apples and apples are tabulated accurately, and not counted sometimes as lemons, or oranges. So "part-time, low wage" jobs aren't counted the same as what used to be commonly understood as a "full-time job." Or whatever other tricks have been used to put lipstick on Governor W.'s job-creating performance.

PS

Forgot to add, when I clicked the madison.com link, it took forever to load. When I put my cursor on the graph, I got a little pop-up that said, "due to high demand, this view is static. {Not "inter-active."} It will be live again soon." I must not be the only one looking for definitive data on this issue.

[mojowork_n]

3. Report released today. Job growth for 2012 (final #'s) at + 0.9 %.

Still lagging all of the other states in the region, still at #44 nationally, and trailing everybody except

• West Virginia,
  
• Arkansas,
  
• Maine,
  
• Delaware,
  
• New Mexico and
  
• Wyoming
  
  

nationally.

And needless to say, still woefully short on the "250,000" promised jobs meter.

Which we'll probably hear more about in the next week or so, as the raw numbers are dissected and parsed and spun.

Early link to the basic report, from the Chippewa Herald, for no particular reason other than it's not a WMC/GMC J-S source and it came up high in the results list:

http://chippewa.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/on-politics/on-politics-wisconsin-falls-to-th-nationally-in-private-sector/article_ff948b22-2269-58eb-a5ac-6244f0b971e6.html