Tag: unemployment

Nope, Zach and I didn’t sell Blogging Blue to some investment banker for billions… Instead, America’s new 1%’ers are at the bottom of the food chain apparently…the 3.3 million Americans who filed for unemployment last week…many of them out of work because of the procrastination and obfuscation of President Donald…

I wonder if more stories like this will help the shine wear off Gov. Scott Walker as he continues to abdicate his responsibilities as governor here in Wisconsin just so he can satisfy his own ambitions. Unemployment rates are up in every Wisconsin county and major city. The state Department…

Welcome to Scott Walker’s Wisconsin, where a member of his own administration summed up Walker’s job creation efforts thusly: “We suck. We’re bad.” “We suck. We’re bad” could also serve as an apt description of just how ineffectively Scott Walker’s administration has run state government, with that ineptitude extending to…

Seriously….can we just dispel the absolute myth of Gov. Scott Walker as a job creator? Unemployment rates increased in most Wisconsin counties and in 14 of the largest cities in November. The state Department of Workforce Development reported Thursday that rates increased in 53 of 72 counties between October and…

Now we have probably all read articles about saving Social Security by raising the minimum retirement age again and raising the age where one earns their maximum benefit. Of course it could simply be saved by eliminating the salary cap…but I think I discussed that elsewhere on Blogging Blue. But…

I imagine most all of us realized that Governor Scott Walker’s promise to create 250,000 jobs in Wisconsin by the end of his four year term was a matter of campaign hyperbole. But thank you to all of those who are holding him to it and reminding all of us…

First he campaigns on a fictional future, now he’s cooking the DWD books.  Will this man stop at nothing to cling to power? Gov. Scott Walker said Monday that Wisconsin’s job creation numbers for his first year in office will be revised this week, less than three weeks before he…

This is reprinted in its entirety from the April 29, 2012 Letters to the Editor section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Expo connects jobs, workers If you are looking for work, here’s a tip: Register now for the Milwaukee Manufacturing Career Expo on May 10 at the State Fair Exposition…

The BLS released it’s state level data for March and the picture was, once again, not pretty for us badgers. In March 2012, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 29 states and the District of Columbia, decreased in 20 states, and was unchanged in Alabama. The largest over-the-month increase in employment occurred in New…

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.