A Powerful Chart of Wisconsin’s Job Deficit

Spotted on Twitter (h/t @BumblingBeard) If Wisconsin had tracked the overall US job growth trajectory (i.e. simply been average), we should have 64,000 more jobs than we have now.  That’s a huge gap!

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So Will Obama Get Credit for LOWER Gas Prices?

I do believe FoxNews will be unwilling to go there…  

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Another View of Scott Walker

Warning!  If you click below, you will be presented with a classic example of things you can’t un-see!!! You have been warned!

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Happy Easter!

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Red State Economics

Public-sector job losses don’t count. Except when they do. One way to dramatize just how severe our de facto austerity has been is to compare government employment and spending during the Obama-era economic expansion, which began in June 2009, with their tracks during the Reagan-era expansion, which began in November…

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The Rules

Without an ability to resort to many of these, conservatives would be unable to communicate. From Information is Beautiful.

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Morning Motivator

This occurred to me this morning…  I was inspired (again) by Corey Robin who proposes that modern conservatives are still fighting the French Revolution. We’re all still fighting the French Revolution whether we want to or not.  The battle between equality and hierarchy persists here in the 21st century. We’re battling with…

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Because It’s All They Know

If we don’t cut corporate taxes immediately, it will be the end of civilization…. …or not.

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Senate Gridlock in One Chart

Yep, that pretty much explains it.

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[UPDATE 2] BREAKING NEWS: Wisconsin Sheds More Jobs in January

UPDATE 2: I just got word from DWD that the numbers in CES are not seasonally adjusted and the numbers in the press release are seasonally adjusted.  That explains the discrepancy.  While the numbers provided are accurate for NSA data, they are not, to be fair, accurate from a reporting standpoint.

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