Walker's Balanced Budget is austerity and it is imploding the Wisconsin economy.
Wisconsin's unemployment rate is 6.3 when the US is 7.0, but, there are major cities exceeding the national average.
Dec. 18, 2013
The nation's (click here) most recent employment report, which examines job creation in all 50 states, raises a familiar question with renewed urgency: Why is Wisconsin a chronic laggard?
According to Wednesday's report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wisconsin gained 23,963 private-sector jobs in the 12 months from June 2012 through June 2013, a 1.0% increase that ranks the state 37th among the 50 states in the pace of job creation during that period.
The state's ranking slid from a revised rank of 32nd three months earlier, which covered the 12 months through March 2012.
Wisconsin continued to trail the national rate of job creation, as it has since July 2011. The United States created private-sector jobs at a rate of 1.9% in the latest 12-month period, nearly double Wisconsin's 1.0% rate, the data show.
"It's like déjà vu all over again," said Dale Knapp, director of research at the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, a nonpartisan pubic policy group in Madison....
While the lack of economic growth and/or recovery is somewhat expected in northern Wisconsin, but, the real surprise is the rates of 8.0% to 9.9% unemployment in the middle and southern end of the state.
The places where one would expect the quickest recovery and growth in Wisconsin, namely Madison and Milwaukee, has lagged in that growth and is experiencing unemployment rates above the national level. The unemployment in these two major US cities is 8.0% or greater.
Walker's reign over Wisconsin's economy while touting balanced budget and union destruction has caused greater adversity while he has been Governor.
His latest approval ratings in March 2013 reflect his 'likable' quotient and not his performance. He appears on television with has brown bag lunches and talking with the Wisconsin people. His demeanor is about touting his success as a humble man while never providing factual information. His talks with the people of Wisconsin is that of image enforcement as if he was their neighbor. Wisconsin doesn't need Mr. Rogers as Governor they need a Governor that can protect their cities and put Wisconsiners back to work. He has created the image of being a successful Governor by appearing warm and fuzzy. In fact he is nothing more than fluff.
By of the Journal Sentinel
March 19, 2013
Gov. Scott Walker has a 50% approval rating, (click here) according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll released Tuesday. The Republican governor’s disapproval rating is 44%.
Walker’s approval rating before the November election was about the same. In the school’s poll on Oct. 31, Walker had a 49% approval rating and 45% disapproval rating....
