Every state should have Wisconsin’s problems:::
FOUR POINT FOUR PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT
SECOND STRONGEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN THE MIDWEST
Labor participation rate FIVE POINT SEVEN percent ABOVE the national average.
Completed his last budget with a $ 500 MILLION DOLLAR SURPLUS after giving Wisconsinites a $ 540 MILLION DOLLAR TAX CUT.
The unemployment rate is O.K. Minnesota’s and North Dakota’s are better. The labor participation when Walker took office was 69%. It is slightly lower now at 68%.
The budget surplus will be challenged. The only way to arrive at that ESTIMATE is to ignore the structural deficit, an accounting tactic that has been discredited by Forbes and Bloomberg. We’ll see how it plays out as the campaign continues.
Walker does have a budget problem for upcoming years:
“The latest estimates by the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget office jumped by more than $1.1 billion over the previous estimate of a $642 million gap released in May. The projections from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau were released Monday for the budget beginning in July 2015 and ending in June 2017”.