Actually, Wisconsin ranks 35th in job creation between 2011 and 2015.
Despite Walker’s success in getting his agenda passed by a Republican legislature, it has not resulted in significant economic improvement for his state.
“As calculated or measured how?”
Maybe Wisconsin for other reasons is not so amenable to the cosmetic games that are played with American employment statistics as a whole. As just one example: simply having a higher proportion of people with a hard-working ethic — i.e. people who did not give up looking for jobs in Wisconsin — would skew the figures to the “bad.”
But, but, but Walker is on the side of the American worker....
Still doesn't tell us much. Since Texas accounted for more than half the net job growth, we're bound to have a large number of states with pretty anemic growth. If an author wanted to provide valid information on this subject (this author didn't), he'd show job growth for every state since Texas so distorts the overall average the author uses to compare against a few states.
Many states probably fall very close together in percentage growth.