About My Worthy Opponents
About Scott Walker
With him as county executive Milwaukee county was nearly bankrupt.
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/104647809.html
Reported on March 30, 2012, Wisconsin had the highest over-the-year percentage decline in employment.
See link (last line of second paragraph). http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/laus_03302012.pdf
March 2011 – March 2012, Wisconsin is the only state with a significant negative job growth.
See link (Table D4).
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
Figures released May 18 again showed Wisconsin ranks last in job creation April 2011-April 2012 with 21,400 jobs lost as depicted in columns 1 & 4 of the link http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.t05.htm
Figures released May 18 again showed Wisconsin ranks last in job creation April 2011-April 2012 with 21,400 jobs lost as depicted in columns 1 & 4 of the link http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.t05.htm
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau now projects a $143.2 million budget deficit compared to a prior estimated surplus of $72 million.
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2012/02/09/projected-wisconsin-budget-deficit.html
Wisconsin leads in cuts to education funding, which is nothing but a false economy.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/129317268.html.
Wisconsin recently rescinded the Equal Pay Enforcement Act (in the present day and age, this is unfathomable!) It just became harder and more expensive to seek damages in Wisconsin for gender-based wage discrimination.
To be noted, Milwaukee city is in Milwaukee county, so Scott Walker is also responsible for the doldrums of the city of Milwaukee that have existed for a long time some of which are listed below.
About Tom Barrett
Milwaukee is the 9th poorest city in the nation.
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2011/11/02/report-milwaukee-9th-poorest-city-in.html
21.7% of families live with income below the poverty line.
See link- towards bottom of page:
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?
pid=ACS_10_5YR_DP03&prodType=table
Considering families with children under the age of 18, an astounding 32% of families live with income below the poverty line.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/Poverty-numbers-spike-in-Milwaukee.html
One of the highest minority unemployment rates particularly for black men. The Milwaukee metropolitan area hit a historic low point in 2010, as 44.7 percent of working-age black males had jobs, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Economic Development.
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/print-edition/2012/01/13/black-male-employment-hits-low.html
One of the highest health care disparities.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-infant-mortality-rate-drops-overall-but-disparity-worsens-sp54t7f-148680905.html
A recently released report card ranks the relative health of people in more than 3,000 counties in the U.S. Unfortunately, Milwaukee ranks near the bottom of counties in Wisconsin.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46937802/ns/health-health_care/
One of the highest crime rates.
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/wi/milwaukee/crime/
http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/wisconsin/milwaukee.html
One of the highest high school drop-out rates.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Milwaukee-Wisconsin.html
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