In Governor Brownback’s re-election campaign, he committed to 25,000 new jobs per year in his next term. This is reminiscent of Governor Walker’s August 2013 promise to create 250,000 new private sector jobs over the four years of his first term, by January 2015. How are things going?
Category Archives: Wisconsin
Kansas: “This other Eden, demi(Austrian)-paradise”
On reading my recent post on Kansas economic performance in the reign of Brownback, which included this graph:
Figure 1: Private nonfarm payroll employment in Kansas (red), in US (blue), in logs normalized to 2011M01=0. Dashed line at 2011M01, Brownback term begins. Source: BLS, author’s calculations.
A&M Professor/Extension Economist Levi Russell writes “Your analysis is highly flawed”.
Revised Coincident Indices for the Midwest: Wisconsin at the Back of the Pack!
Again.
Wisconsin’s Dependence on Exports
On the eve of the primary votes in Wisconsin, where protectionists are set to make some inroads, it’s of interest to consider the state’s reliance on exports — including those to China (a target of both Senator Sanders and Mr. Trump) and Mexico [1].
Wisconsin Employment Still Lags (Quelle Surprise!)
BLS just released state level data. Wisconsin employment nonfarm payroll employment is up, but remains below what is expected given the historical relationship between US and Wisconsin employment — by 63.2 thousand…
“The End of Research in Wisconsin”
That’s the title of a Slate article documenting the implications of recent policy actions implemented in the state of Wisconsin.
Not Quite: “…Wisconsin has left its former Democratic party-controlled (Midwest) peers behind”
One conservative meme is that Wisconsin’s apparently poor economic performance relative to other Midwest states is due to an inappropriate choice of reference dates; for instance, a year ago, Political Calculations made the assertion in the title, based on a July 2013 reference date. The logic?
Benchmarked Wisconsin Private Nonfarm Payroll Declines
While the BLS state level data will come out on Monday (see discussion here), the individual states release slightly earlier. Wisconsin released employment data today.
The Wisconsin Employment Boom Will Be Revised Away
Not so certain the slowdown will be similarly erased.
Stall Speed in Wisconsin?
The Philadelphia Fed has released leading indicators for December. Essentially zero growth in Wisconsin over the next six months is predicted.