Jobs or lies--which one do you think it is? When Scott Walker took office as Governor of Wisconsin in January, 2011 he committed to add 250,000 new private sector jobs by 2015. Lets see--thats 4 years or 48 months or--say 5208 jobs per month. Walker had reported a monthly average of 5700 new jobs for the first 4 months of 2011. Well ahead of schedule. However, according to the June 17th issue of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper the Walker administration reported that only 900 private sector jobs were added in May, 2011. What happened?? The newspaper suggests that this drop follows a national pattern--baloney.
In fact according to a chart provided to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by the Walker administration, they created just under 4000 new jobs in April, just under 8000 new jobs in March, 3000 new jobs in February, and 11,300 jobs in January, 2011, the month that Walker took office.
This is after the State Department of Workforce Development had reported only 300 new jobs in December, 2010. What an amazing turnaround. Where did the great increase in jobs come from? What are the names of the Wisconsin private sector companies who had the openings? Who got hired? Are any openings left? The unemployment rate for Black males in Milwaukee still stands at 50%. We need those jobs now!
Governor-we need those jobs--where are they--name the companies?
