The MacIver Institute, an organization of endlessly imaginative analysis, has highlighted this LFB memo that reports that under the right conditions, the structural budget balance will be +$535 for the 2015-17 biennium.
Category Archives: Wisconsin
Wisconsin Private Nonfarm Payroll Employment Declines in August
DWD released August employment figures today. Attainment of Governor Walker’s 250,000 net new private sector jobs continues to be unlikely.
Further Deterioration in Wisconsin Structural Budget Surplus
The Evaporation of the Wisconsin Budget Surplus
A rapid collapse in the Wisconsin fiscal prospects (but pretty predictable, as long as one doesn’t believe in supply side miracles).
Quantitative Implications of Wisconsin Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
No succor from the QCEW series that the Walker Administration previously touted [1]
Wisconsin Forecasted to Lag Further Behind Minnesota
And Kansas travels its own path
New Quarterly Gross State Product Series: Wisconsin and Minnesota
The BEA has released a new quarterly Gross State Product (GSP) series for states — a tremendous innovation for those of us interested in tracking state economies.
(Not) The Leader of the Pack: Wisconsin and Her Neighbors
Today the Philadelphia Fed released coincident indices (measures of aggregate economic activity) for the states and the US. Wisconsin outperforms Kansas — a very low bar — and yet has lagged all her neighbors.
Implications of Procyclical Fiscal Policy: Wisconsin Edition
I’ve read several comments lauding the move toward a structural budget balance in Wisconsin under Governor Walker’s administration. I decided to take a look at what the actual evidence for a surplus is, and what the economic impact has been of policies purported to improve economic performance.
Wisconsin Employment under Walker
Continued stagnation in July.