Wisconsin July jobs numbers
Have just come out. Employment is down 12,800, a single-month record; the unemployment rate is up to 7.8% from 7.6% in June. Apparently it's the fault of the national slowdown and Washington-created...
View ArticleNumbers to compare to Scott Walker Recall signatures on Tuesday
There are enough signatures to force a recall of our Governor here in Wisconsin: that much is certain. Regardless of the precise number, this Tuesday, January 17th, they will be handed in to the...
View ArticleSo I carried a box
A cardboard box. Not an especially big box. Not the heaviest I've carried by any means but it had quite a few pieces of paper inside, judging by its heft. You may well have one matching this...
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My Madison pictures
The crowd begins to gather outside the United Wisconsin office for a pre-rally, one of several prior to gathering at the Capitol building:
View ArticleScott Walker lies: the budget and jobs
This diary grew out of some research I put together for a comment a few days ago. I've expanded things a bit and want to put these links out there because I can't follow up every comment by a blind...
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Walker's 64,000 Job Deficit
Chart created by RandomNonviolence (*). (*) Who also accomplished putting up with my continual tweak suggestions.
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Visceral Walker (updated)
I was talking with a fellow recaller yesterday evening, and he made a very good point: while an avalanche of facts is great to have, they'll rarely get the point across to marginal voters in a way...
View ArticleSo Governor Walker, about that budget surplus...
That $154 million surplus that you were told about by the Secretary of the Department of Administration, Mike Huebsch? The one which includes $78 million of kicking the can down the road by taking on...
View ArticleScott Walker spins 360 degrees in the space of a single number (plus...
That number is 33,521. From his recent press release: A quarterly report released today by the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) shows Wisconsin created 23,321 jobs in 2011. Wisconsin...
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Walker's 66,000 job deficit
If Wisconsin were merely following the national trend of job growth since Walker started in January 2011, we'd have 66,000 more jobs now than we actually do (the disparity rising from 64,000 last...
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Doyle/Walker jobs performance
Walker has become fond of highlighting the 150,000 jobs lost in Wisconsin under his predecessor, Jim Doyle. What Walker is less fond of highlighting is that despite this, Doyle's Wisconsin still did...
View ArticleScott Walker lies: the whopper
This one is for your friends and relatives who might be holding back on Barrett because they don't believe in recalls no matter how terrible Walker's policies and deception on the campaign trail might...
View ArticleWalker is keeping eligible Wisconsinites off BadgerCare
The Walker Administration is being sued over its refusal to enroll people in BadgerCare: 28. Since January 2010, the number of individuals enrolled in the Core program has steadily dropped. At the...
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I sit with Tom Barrett
So I'm pounding the ground today and down a cul-de-sac I come across this sign in the yard of someone listed as an 88 year old lady. I wish she had been home: Given that the doors I've been knocking...
View ArticleAct 10, the Constitution and the Assembly Democrats
Last Friday, Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colàs made the order: For the reasons stated above, the court grants summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, denies the defendants' motion for judgment...
View ArticleGrothman's mouth can bite him
The recent overturning of major elements of Act 10 has had Wisconsin Republicans all worked up, with plenty of entirely predictable accusations of Judge Juan Colás being a liberal activist. Senator...
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Walker's 80,000 job deficit
During the recall election campaign, Scott Walker re-made his 2010 promise to see Wisconsin create 250,000 jobs during his first term, and furthermore said that there would be a "dramatic turnaround"...
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Walker's 80,000 job deficit
During the recall election campaign, Scott Walker re-made his 2010 promise to see Wisconsin create 250,000 jobs during his first term, and furthermore said that there would be a "dramatic turnaround"...
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Beware of Republicans bearing promises of jobs: the bitter Wisconsin lesson...
For the last 20 months here in the Badger State, we have been living the Republican austerity dream under Scott Walker: 1. He promised 250,000 new jobs if elected (about a 10% increase) within his...
View ArticleWalker's $2.2bn deficit, more jobs lies, WEDC unaudited and borrowing to...
In 2006, gubernatorial candidate Walker issued a press release condemning Governor Jim Doyle as a liar:DoyleLie: Our budget is balancedWalkerTruth: Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) shows...
View ArticleWhy Social Security doesn't contribute to the national debt
The non-relationship of Social Security to the national debt is often quoted, but infrequently explained. So here's the nickel tour.Let's simplify and scale the numbers down a bit to make them easier...
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Scott Walker projects own massive jobs failure
On Wednesday, Scott Walker delivered his 2013-15 Budget Address. Others have covered the school voucher expansion, the below-inflation education "increase" that leads to net zero extra funding because...
View ArticleWalker Admin sets rhetorical trap on jobs for media, Journal-Sentinel walks...
On Thursday the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) released revised jobs data alongside the January figures, data that will be released by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics on...
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Wisconsin's dire job growth ranking isn't going anywhere any time soon
At the end of March, the data that economists regard as the most accurate (QCEW) came out for September for all states and showed that 21 months into Walker's term we had fallen from 11th in the nation...
View ArticleBy the numbers: why Walker is easier to beat than many seem to think
I don't need to tell anyone reading this how bitter a disappointment last year's recall result was. After the disappointment came reflection: we lost because the timing wasn't right, we lost because...
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