Friday, May 18, 2012

Scott Walker claims 33,000...the real number is 400

From the WI Dept of Workforce Development, the jobs report from April is showing a dramatic drop in unemployment for WI, yet jobs were still lost, 5,900 jobs. Technically the job loss for private companies is 6,200 jobs for the month. However, the government made up for it by adding 300 jobs. This month could be taken in stride of a larger economy still trying to get back up on its feet but the report went a little further and tracked back to December of 2010 the month before Scott Walker took office, only 400 jobs have been added  to the WI economy. In a recent commercial, which are plaguing WI airwaves, Scott Walker claims to have created a net 33,000 during his time in office. Walker chose to go by a different federal report which paint a rosier picture for his campaign. Walker's numbers have not yet been proven by the US Bureau of Labor, this will happen after his recall election June 5th. Politicians are asking you to believe an unverified number to give him the vote, you get the verified number after the election results. Meanwhile, other sources reporting Wisconsin job losses are  swept under the rug, these are preliminary numbers based on only 3.5% of the full report, but already the picture of Wisconsin's economy is grim. Politicians will use the state 6.7% unemployment rate to say that people are getting back to work, it's not as bad as the national number of 8.1%. This is what they will say, however they tend to ignore the people for whom benefits are running out due to long term unemployment and cannot re-file. Or the thousands who cannot register for unemployment but are underemployed. The numbers the politicians use do not reflect the truth. Vote on June 5th, in our recall of Governor Walker, whether you believe Walker and feel Wisconsin is moving forward in our economy or whether you're like me and want to tell him 400 jobs since 2010 is not enough! 

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