Top Wisconsin Economist: State Is Gaining Jobs
More reliable report reveals better jobs numbers for Wisconsin.
May 16, 2012
• By JOHN MCCORMACK
In the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall race, Republicans and Democrats
continue to spar over the jobs numbers under Governor Scott Walker's
administration. Republicans have been touting the fact that the
unemployment rate has declined from 7.7 percent to 6.8 percent since
Governor Scott Walker took office. But Democrats have countered by
pointing to a Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report showing that the
state lost 29,000 non-farm jobs during the past year--making Wisconsin
dead last in that category nationwide.
So
has Wisconsin's employment outlook become better or worse? According to
a new and more reliable jobs report, the BLS report cited by the
Democrats is inaccurate. As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
reports today, the BLS "figures were based on a sample of 3.5% of the
state's employers and are subject to significant revisions." According
to the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages--which is a hard count
of actual jobs in Wisconsin, not a survey--the state actually gained
more than 30,000 since Walker took office.
The new jobs report was met with outrage and incredulity from Wisconsin Democrats and liberals in the press. Tom Barrett had accused Walker of trying to "cook the books."
"They brought in a fiction writer. They don’t like their numbers. They’re going to make up their own numbers," Barrett told reporters earlier this week. Read More
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The new jobs report was met with outrage and incredulity from Wisconsin Democrats and liberals in the press. Tom Barrett had accused Walker of trying to "cook the books."
"They brought in a fiction writer. They don’t like their numbers. They’re going to make up their own numbers," Barrett told reporters earlier this week. Read More
There are over 400 million opportunities in Latin America...Reach Out
If you are planning on Running Away....
9 Scary Ways Criminals Use Facebook to Scam and Rob You
This Friday, Facebook will go public in one of the most anticipated
IPOs in history. With more than 900 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's
expanding social media empire has become a seemingly irreplaceable part
of the online experience. Unfortunately, a byproduct of its success is
that millions of Americans are far more at risk of falling victim to a
number of cyber crimes.
To be sure, cyber crime is nothing new, but the social media revolution has made such crimes much easier to commit. People have "friends" they've never met; they make personal information widely available. And Facebook's hundreds of millions of users are a rich pool of targets.
According to an infographic published earlier this year by ZoneAlarm,
a leading Internet security software provider, "roughly 4 million
Facebook users experience spam on a daily basis, 20% of Facebook users
have been exposed to malware," and Facebook receives 600,000 reports of
hijacked log-ins every day.
Read more
To be sure, cyber crime is nothing new, but the social media revolution has made such crimes much easier to commit. People have "friends" they've never met; they make personal information widely available. And Facebook's hundreds of millions of users are a rich pool of targets.
According to an infographic published earlier this year by ZoneAlarm,
a leading Internet security software provider, "roughly 4 million
Facebook users experience spam on a daily basis, 20% of Facebook users
have been exposed to malware," and Facebook receives 600,000 reports of
hijacked log-ins every day.Read more
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