According to WI DWD statistics released today.
Category Archives: Wisconsin
The Year in Review: Even More Fantastical Pseudo Economics
To heck with facts… and the scientific method.
Downgraded: The Macro Outlook in Wisconsin
The Department of Revenue’s Wisconsin Economic Outlook, released last week, details a noticeable deterioration in forecasted economic performance, in just the past eight months.
Some Observations on the Wisconsin Employment Outlook
The Walker Administration’s Economic Outlook forecasts private employment in January 2015 will be 115 thousand below the goal set forth by Governor Walker in August 2013. Wisconsin nonfarm payroll employment will not reattain prior peak levels until 2015Q2.
Arkansas ahead of Wisconsin
On progress in implementing the minimum wage.
Philadelphia Fed: Wisconsin and Kansas Growth Gaps Forecasted to Increase
And California and Minnesota surge ahead of the US. I know this sounds like a broken record, but the numbers are the numbers. And reader Patrick R. Sullivan suggests I move to Kansas, based on a Tax Foundation analysis (the same Patrick R. Sullivan who refuses to admit that his assertion that the depth of the downturn in Canada was less than that in the US during the Great Depression is wrong.) Here’s at least one reason why I don’t plan to. From today’s release of leading indices by the Philadelphia Fed, combined with last week’s release of coincident indices.
Philadelphia Fed Coincident Indices: Kansas and Wisconsin Continue to Lag Nation
Low ranked by ALEC-Laffer, California and Minnesota continue to power along, as shown in data released today by the Philadelphia Fed.
Has Wisconsin Employment Growth Really Been Normal over the Last Four Years?
Integration, cointegration and the evaluation of time series data for public policy analysis. As my first economics teacher said, “ya gotta be careful”.
Wisconsin Employment: 108.6K below Trend Required to Hit Walker’s 250K Target
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development released without fanfare (well, there is no press release I see on the DWD media website as of 3pm CDT today) the last figures to be available before the election. They indicate September private nonfarm employment 108.6 thousands below the trend consistent with the Governor’s target (recommitted to a mere year ago) of 250 thousands net new jobs.
Governor Walker Answering a Question Regarding the Wisconsin Living Wage
Or, not answering, as the case may be.
Here is the video; see the question asked about 16 minutes in.