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News » Report: State missing 64K jobs since Jan. 2011
May 11, 2012
A report from a think tank at UW-Madison says if the state had kept pace with the nation, there would be 64,000 more jobs in Wisconsin.
The Center for Wisconsin Strategy looked at Governor Walker's first 15 months in office.
Assistant Director Laura Dresser says the national job market grew by two percent over that time, and that would have led to nearly 50,000 new jobs in the state. She says Wisconsin instead lost more than 14,000 private and public sector jobs over that time.
Dresser says more than 13,000 of the missing jobs are in the professional and business services industry. She says that area needs to turn around, in order for the economy to grow. She says that's because companies tend to use temp agencies when they start hiring.
The gap in the leisure and hospitality industry, and in government jobs, each topped 10,000.
The report also shows Wisconsin generally mirrored the national job trends for a 21-year period, from 1990 until January of last year. Dresser says the state then started going in the opposite direction.
Center on Wisconsin Strategy report » |
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