Walker's Real Economic Record Is His Failed Promise Of Job Creation
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin is "37th In The Nation In Private-Sector Job Growth Under Walker." As a candidate in 2010, Walker promised to create 250,000 jobs in his first term. However, entering his fourth year in office, the Journal-Sentinel labeled the state's job growth "anemic" and noted that the Governor is nearly 90,000 jobs short of his 250,000 job promise. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 1/25/14]
New York Times: "Three Years Into Mr. Walker's Term, Wisconsin Lags Behind Minnesota In Job Creation And Economic Growth." In a New York Times op-ed, University of Minnesota professor Lawrence Jacobs pointed out that Minnesota "adopted some of the most progressive policies in the country" as opposed to Walker's austerity measures and found that "Wisconsin lags behind Minnesota in job creation and economic growth":
Which side of the experiment -- the new right or modern progressivism -- has been most effective in increasing jobs and improving business opportunities, not to mention living conditions?
Obviously, firm answers will require more time and more data, but the first round of evidence gives the edge to Minnesota's model of increased services, higher costs (mostly for the affluent) and reduced payments to entrenched interests like the insurers who cover the Medicaid population.
Three years into Mr. Walker's term, Wisconsin lags behind Minnesota in job creation and economic growth. As a candidate, Mr. Walker promised to produce 250,000 private-sector jobs in his first term, but a year before the next election that number is less than 90,000. Wisconsin ranks 34th for job growth. Mr. Walker's defenders blame the higher spending and taxes of his Democratic predecessor for these disappointments, but according to Forbes's annual list of best states for business, Wisconsin continues to rank in the bottom half. [New York Times,11/24/13]
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: In 2012, Wisconsin Private Sector Wages Fell 2.2%, Placing Wisconsin 44th Among All States. According to statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wisconsin private sector wages fell 2.2% in 2012. The Journal-Sentinel noted that the change ranked the state 44th out of 50, adding the "rate was double the drop in the national average":
Among the states most affected is Wisconsin.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, private-sector wages in Wisconsin fell 2.2% in the 12 months ended September 2012, ranking the state 44th out of 50.The rate was double the drop in the national average.
Wages in the state's government sector, pressured more by government austerity policies than global competition, registered 49th in the nation during the same period.
With the state also lagging much of the nation in job creation -- ranking 44th in the most recent 12-month period -- it is apparent that Wisconsin is struggling more than many other states in the transition to 21st-century growth industries from its legacy as a bastion of old-line manufacturing. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 5/26/13]
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin Ranks 49th In Economic Outlook. According to a June 6, 2013, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article, projections from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia ranked Wisconsin 49th out of 50 states in economic outlook and the state was one of only five states with a projected economic contraction in the last six months of 2013. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 5/28/13]
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