State jobs deficit at quarter-million, report says

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/business/state-jobs-deficit-at-quarter-million-report-says/article_27f75c4a-d361-5da2-8110-c2aa6df0b212.html#ixzz25MT8Yq5d

Three years after the Great Recession officially ended, Wisconsin faces Labor Day on Monday with nearly a quarter-million fewer jobs than it needs, according to a new report by the UW-Madison Center on Wisconsin Strategy.

The “State of Working Wisconsin 2012” said Wisconsin employers provided 2.72 million jobs in July 2012, down from 2.88 million jobs in December 2007, when the recession began.

But the state’s job deficit is really more than 245,900 when population growth is included.

“There’s a serious lack of demand for workers. There are a lot of people who wish they were working, who wish they had more hours of work and a lot of people who have given up looking for jobs,” said Laura Dresser, COWS associate director. “That’s a lot of capacity in this nation and in this state that is not getting used by this labor market.”

Wages also are a serious problem, the report said....

[hue]

1. Thanks for minus nothing Wanker!!!

[mysuzuki2]

2. Hey wait, didn't Scotty promise us 250k new jobs in his first term?

Well, where are they Scott?

[Scuba]

3. Don't worry, he'll trot out some bogus numbers shortly and say "our reforms are working".

Reminds me of Charlie Sheen saying "winning".

[midnight]

4. K&R