Private sector employment continues to slide in Wisconsin

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Source: Milwaukee and Southeastern Wisconsin Business News

Private sector employment fell in September in Wisconsin for the third consecutive month, even as the unemployment rate improved slightly, according to the latest report released today by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
The state lost 900 jobs among private-sector employers, the report said.

Employment in the government sector continued to fall, losing an estimated 11,700 jobs. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped slightly to 7.8 percent in September from 7.9 percent in August.

The unemployment rate in January, when Gov. Scott Walker took office with a promise to create 250,000 new jobs in the next four years, was 7.4 percent.

“Our unemployment rate ticked down while the nation’s rate was unchanged, and through August, Wisconsin’s rate continued to be lower than rates of other manufacturing-heavy Midwest states including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio,” DWD Secretary Scott Baumbach said. “Even so, our state’s unemployment rate is still too high and underscores the urgency of the special session that Governor Walker has called to get Wisconsin working again. The Governor’s leadership, along with the support of the Legislature, will keep us moving in the right direction.”

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http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_5f002606-6413-5dcf-8ed0-76a9703142bf.html


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[Brickbat]

1. "OPEN FOR BUSINESS"

Mm-hmm.

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[dkf]

3. Less private sector jobs + less govt jobs = lower unemployment rate?

Same old funky numbers.

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5. overall numbers... hey, but he did give give $2.3 billion in tax breaks for corporations and rich.

With an ever-climbing state unemployment rate and reasonable pleas for action by the middle class, Gov. Scott Walker is offering what has become his gubernatorial calling card: a special-interest session of more corporate favors and less corporate accountability.

And this narrowing gap between Walker and the corporate special interests only widens his credibility gulf with the people of Wisconsin, particularly with the way in which his policies ripped Wisconsin apart.

To date, Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature have used their majority to give $2.3 billion in new tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. And in the 10 months they have led the state, they have not created jobs and we have an unemployment rate that has risen a full half-point to 7.9 percent.

At the same, they have taken $1.6 billion from public education, are set to take health care away from 53,000, slashed $330 million from the University of Wisconsin and the technical college system, and even raised taxes on seniors and the working poor by $70 million.


http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/column/article_aec6a0d7-87be-5089-b010-7245d3c26aef.html

...gotta keep um poor and dumb!

[caseymoz]

11. Due to people giving up searching . . . and joining the Occupy movement.

(The second thing is hypothetical, but you'd think things will become unstable with so many unemployed.) Remember, if you're not looking, you're not counted among the unemployed.

The fact is, if they lost over 11,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has dropped, it means more than 11,000 people gave up. They lost more workers than they lost jobs. When you understand that, the numbers aren't funny. They're scary.

[ck4829]

16. Probably from giving up the search or moving out of the state

[nebenaube]

19. brain drain...

The smart ones are leaving.

[ashling]

4. Gut, but ... the Koch Bros. have advertised soooo many jobs

in Wisconsin per Rachel. :sarcasm:

[Firebrand Gary]

6. We have a family business in Portage, WI that my brother in-law closing.

It's true.

It is due to the rejection of the high speed rail. My brother in law purchased the land and we were set to build 45 room resort. Not anymore and the land is back up for sale. We are still going to continue on with our family investment but are now looking to build it in California.

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7. Portage is exactly that. It's where you go from the St. Lawrence seaway to the Mississippi.

You portage from the Fox river to the Wisconsin river.

The train runs from Chicago to Mnpls. through Portage now, it does clunk along slowly... on some of the tracks.


You never know what might happen in the future. Hope you get the money you invested back.

[Firebrand Gary]

8. We will, it will be hard but we will recover.

It's too bad that we could not do it in Wisconsin.

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9. Lets hear it 2-4-6-8-

You know !

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10. For me it's Bill Lueders from the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Bill Lueders is president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and is the Money and Politics Project director at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. The project, a partnership of the Center and MapLight, is supported by the Open Society Institute.





The Republican state senator from West Bend is what legislative insiders call a “true believer.” He’s also a straight shooter. Ask him an honest question, you’ll get an honest answer.

So there’s no reason to doubt the sincerity of Grothman’s belief that Wisconsin’s political process would work better if people had access to less information. He has introduced a bill to end the requirement that those who give more than $100 a year to state political campaigns disclose their principal place of employment.

Grothman, in a press release, backs this change because “mean-spirited public employee unions,” including the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, “have tried to use the massive purchasing power of our public workers to make it difficult for businesses that hire Republican employees within our state to continue operating.”

He says this practice “reached a new level” recently when state Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, called on state residents to boycott the products of Georgia-Pacific. The company, which employs about 3,000 people in Wisconsin, is owned by Koch Industries, whose political action committee gave $43,000 to help Republican Gov. Scott Walker get elected last year.


http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/column/article_d73f5d58-fb4b-11e0-8672-001cc4c03286.html

[caseymoz]

12. I'm glad Wisconsin is showing us the results of Conservative economics.

After Conservatives have lauded it for so many years, now they're showing us.

But, oh, what a price the state will pay!

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14. Scott Walker will do more for democrats in one year then former Gov. Doyle did in eight.

As to the expense well.... people don't learn unless it seems to hurt, like the single cell amoeba that gets shocked every time it wanders into the light.

[caseymoz]

13. I'm glad Wisconsin is showing us the results of Conservative economics.

After Conservatives have lauded it for so many years, now they're showing us.

But, oh, what a price the state will pay!

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15. and just so ya know...

irregardless is a double negative.

[No Elephants]

17. D*E*M*A*N*D

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18. Republicans in Wisconsin now tackling the Democratic Sex-Ed bill....

It was working to well at reducing teen pregnancies and STD's so the Repukes want to force abstinence only sex ed in schools.


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