Let’s change partisan Wisconsin jobs debate into concrete action
Posted on 18 May 2012 by Andy Feldman.
Update: Media about this BadgerStat post: WTDY Madison radio interview w/ Andy Feldman, May 18, 2012 —- We understand that in this particularly partisan time for Wisconsin, with recall elections approaching, jobs statistics have potentially important political implications. As has been pointed out, different data sets show different trends: One shows a loss of almost 34,000 Wisconsin jobs [...]
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Jobs & Unemployment (Updated Monthly)
Posted on 23 April 2012 by Andy Feldman.
UPDATED 4/23/12: Wisconsin lost 4,500 jobs in March 2012, according to preliminary data. That includes a loss of 4,300 private sector jobs and a loss of 200 public sector jobs. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate dipped down 0.1 percentage point to 6.8%. This BadgerStat brief provides you with charts and data to help you understand Wisconsin’s jobs trend.
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Wisconsin’s business climate: Hot, cold, or just right?
Posted on 21 January 2012 by Andy Feldman.
Last week I took part in a discussion on Wisconsin’s business climate on 4th Street Forum. Below is the transcript of some of the points I made and, below that, the video of the event. The appendix provides links to research by Timothy Bartik of the Upjohn Institute that was the basis for some of my [...]
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KidStat: A leadership strategy for agency performance improvement
Posted on 18 January 2012 by Andy Feldman.
The focus of most BadgerStat posts, as you know, is to provide statistics that inform how Wisconsin is doing in various policy areas. In this brief, however, we have a different goal: To highlight an innovation within a Wisconsin agency that we believe should be a model for other state and local agencies: KidStat. This [...]
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Spending on Wisconsin Supreme Court elections
Posted on 15 January 2012 by Andy Feldman.
An estimated $19.7 million was spent on Wisconsin Supreme Court elections since 2007, ranging from just above $2 million in 2009 to nearly $6 million in three recent races: 2007, 2008 and 2011. In terms of the sources of those funds, the results show that most spending comes from undisclosed sources in the form of issue ads [...]
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Do changes in Chief Exec Magazine’s state rankings lead to changes in economic results?
Posted on 06 January 2012 by Andy Feldman.
A frequent talking point of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is that the state’s ranking of its business climate in Chief Executive Magazine jumped 17 places when he took office — the most of any state that year. In this brief, we examine whether changes in these rankings are predictors of states actual job growth. In [...]
Wisconsin’s job growth rate: How are we doing?
Posted on 01 December 2011 by Andy Feldman.
Jobs are the issue of our time — in Wisconsin and across the nation. Yet surprisingly, it’s not easy to find the answer to a relatively straightforward question: How does Wisconsin rank, versus other states, on job creation? So we ran the numbers. We ran them for the last ten years (“long term”), last five [...]
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