tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post3394121545886987438..comments2024-02-20T19:58:27.733-06:00Comments on Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse: They're packing them in at UW-Madison, especially if they're from out of state. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-29121294549898936752019-09-26T06:53:46.732-05:002019-09-26T06:53:46.732-05:00You can bet those out-of-state UW-Madison students...You can bet those out-of-state UW-Madison students aren't considering Wisconsin as a place to start a career after graduation. And you can thank Scott Walker and the Republican majorities in the state legislature for this brain drain as well.<br />This is doubly baffling, and stupid, since the UW-Sysytem is part of the state economy, a long-term investment in state prosperity, and an economic engine. Research, especially at UW-Madison, leads to health care, manufacturing and similar discoveries and innovations that, once developed, become new products and services, with attendant employment opportunities for educated job seekers.<br />An educated workforce is a more skeptical workforce, however, one less inclined to accept ideologies incompatible with tolerance, pluralism, civic responsibility, equal application of the rule of law to all citizens...in short, with Republican economic and social platforms and talking points.Maynard McKillenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06202870333077627636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-75099640178567970832019-09-25T21:05:04.983-05:002019-09-25T21:05:04.983-05:00The aging is a different demographic problem. This...The aging is a different demographic problem. This is more that there are fewer kids being born in the state in general, and young families aren't moving in here as much.Jake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-66368053080021471042019-09-25T21:00:40.889-05:002019-09-25T21:00:40.889-05:00When I first read there was a decline in the numbe...When I first read there was a decline in the number of HS graduates I was alarmed. Is that a reflection of the state's aging demographic? We just have fewer students? Katrinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567024359026289208noreply@blogger.com