Scott Walker Gets Ridiculed For Highest Job Losses in the Nation

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13. There is a disconnect between

"job loss numbers" ------> High

and

"unemployment percentage" -------> Lower than it has been.



But that can be at least partly explained by how they compile the
labor statistics.

In the border regions near Illinois and Minnesota (and I suppose
da YU-Pee), Wisconsinites are sometimes able to find work across
the state line. Those become "new jobs" that get counted for our
neighboring state, but it's one more worker who's 'stopped looking
for work' in Wisconsin.

That's the number to bring up, because the other side automatically
assumes those are just people too lazy or useless to find jobs.

If you look at a map, with the Twin Cities and N. Chicago areas
so close for commuting Wisconsinites, there are no big Wisconsin
job hubs drawing people from those states. (If there were any new
jobs here for those people to be attracted to.) It's something that's
been going on for a while but whenever times are tough locally,
people are more willing to travel farther to find work.