Wisconsin: Walker's Inconvenient Truth: Job Creation Nearly Nonexistent Outside of Madison

[Scuba]

http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/walkers-inconvenient-truth-job-creation-nearly-nonexistent-outsi

Despite having only 9.9% of the state's population, the Madison metropolitan statistical area (MSA) has accounted for 36.9% of the state's total private job growth since Scott Walker took office, according to an analysis of the Quarterly Census of Employment and Salaries (QCES).

From January 2011 to January 2013, Madison created 21,548 of Wisconsin 58,322 private sector jobs, a speedy annual job growth rate that clocks-in at 4.4%. The Milwaukee MSA -- which accounts for 27.4% of Wisconsin's population and includes Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee counties -- was a distant second at 14,730 private jobs created, which is an annual job growth rate of only 1.1%.

Overall the state's overall annual job growth of 1.3% has been well below the national annual job growth average of 2.2%, but without Madison, the annual rate of growth in Wisconsin has been a barely-moving .83%. In fact, if the rest of Wisconsin had experienced the same private job growth as Madison, the state would be on pace to have 388,183 new jobs by the end of Walker's first term-- far eclipsing his stated goal of 250,000.

Given these statistics, one would expect that the governor of Wisconsin to be spreading what's working in Madison to the rest of state, right? Nope. In fact, Governor Scott Walker takes every opportunity to belittle Wisconsin's capital city. Recently Walker said, "I think it’s pretty clear that you have two very different worlds in this state. You have a world driven by Madison and a world driven by everybody else in the state of Wisconsin."

[postulater]

1. Half of my nieces and nephews who have graduated from college in Wisconsin have left

to find jobs.

And sadly, my daughter, a recent graduate engineer is not finding work in Wisconsin either.

[Pharaoh]

2. Ha Ha!

And Walkers base is all outside Madison! Fuck you wankers!!