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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

AP story on job-poor WI overlooks Walker's six-year fail

Somehow the Associated Press manages to craft a very, very long story about rural Wisconsin voters looking for workforce and quality-of-life salvation from Donald Trump without mentioning the incumbent Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's six-year job creating failure and 250,000 new-jobs-after-one-term-pledge declared broken by PolitiFact more than two years ago.

\Walker's Teflon is intact in part because some media give Walker such a huge pass and in this case, fail to find and quote anyone who remembers that Wisconsin in fact has a governor who made job growth his leading priority in three gubernatorial elections while presiding over an economy and a political environment without a spark.


In a state where Republicans - - the self-proclaimed party of business - - run all three branches of government and can't use a $66 billion bi-ennual budget to stimulate the economy. After six years!

If you Google "Wisconsin Job Creation," these are the first four hits. Come on, AP. you have to do better:

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Wisconsin ranks 33rd in job creation - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2016/.../wisconsin...job-creation/89932888/

Sep 7, 2016 - As employment in Wisconsin's massive manufacturing sector switched into reverse, the state continued to lag the nation in the latest quarterly census of job creation.  Wisconsin added 37,166 private-sector non-farm jobs in the 12 months from March 2015 through March 2016, a tally ...

Once again, Wisconsin job growth trails national pace - Jsonline

archive.jsonline.com/.../wisconsins-pace-of-job-growth-continues-to-trail-behind-the-...

Mar 9, 2016 - Wisconsin gained 29616 private-sector jobs in the 12 months from ... Wisconsincontinuously has trailed the national rate of job creation since ...

Wisconsin ranks 32nd in job growth over five years - Jsonline

archive.jsonline.com/.../wisconsin-ranks-37th-in-latest-job-creation-report-b9963573...

Dec 17, 2015 - Wisconsin ranked 32nd in private-sector job growth among the 50 states in the five-year period that ended in June, new government figures show — a period that effectively encompasses the national hiring recovery since the last recession. The Badger State increased private-sector ...

Gov. Walker defends job-creation efforts as Wisconsin ranked 36th ...

fox6now.com/.../gov-walker-defends-job-creation-efforts-as-wisconsin-ranked-36th-...

Jun 8, 2016 - MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker is defending his job-creation record as governor, even as Wisconsin continues lagging the national average.
James Rowen at 10:38 PM
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