Sept jobs report gives more proof of Fitzwalkerstan's decline

We had a closely-watched September Wisconsin jobs report come out this afternoon. I’ll spare you the Walker Administration’s spin and give you the numbers.

To the credit of those doing the report (who are not the Walker hacks that “interpret” the results), they played it straight, releasing a bad jobs report less than 20 days before the elections.

Change in jobs
All jobs
Oct 2018 -1,100
Sept -1,400
TOTAL CHANGE FROM SEPT REPORT -2,500

Private jobs
Oct 2018 change -900
Sept 2018 revision -1,600
TOTAL CHANGE FROM SEPT REPORT -2,500

Household survey
Employed -7,500
Labor Force -7,000

It was that drop in the labor force that kept unemployment from going higher, and reiterates that a lot of Wisconsin’s low unemployment rate is due to a lack of people wanting to live in a state run by corrupt regressives vs economic growth (unlike fellow low-unemployment states Minnesota and Colorado, as noted in this post).

The overall trend isn’t great either, as in their own monthly reports the Walker Administration has reported private sector job losses in 4 of the last 6 months, and less than 5,000 private sector jobs have been added since March. The overall numbers for the last 6 months are slightly better at 11,700 (6,800 new government jobs? SMALL GOVERNMENT CONSERVATISM).

It also gives a last look at the Walker jobs gap ahead of November’s election. It grew again by in September, and by quite a bit, as the US was adding jobs while the state was losing them. The Walker jobs gap is now just below 150,000, and has continued to rise in 2018.

Can anyone look at those charts and say “Oh yeah, this is a winning direction for the future”? Yet the Walker Administration keeps doubling down on this losing strategy, as they continue to use tax dollars to promote Foxconn in other parts of the state in a time when Main Street employers aren’t adding jobs and not enough people are coming here in the first place to continue the small amount of growth that we have had.

You can have all the fake photo ops at campaign contributors that you want, Scotty. The numbers tell the real story, and you are not worthy of a 4-year contract extension.