“Clearly, the recovery has lost some of the strength seen in early 2011, when jobs grew steadily through the first six months of the year,” says a new report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a UW-Madison think tank. The COWS report notes Wisconsin now has a jobs deficit of 195,300 — the difference between the number of jobs Wisconsin has now and what it needs to return to pre-recession levels.
“The jobs deficit should be a national and state priority,” the group says. Whether Republican, Democrat or Wall Street occupier, nobody is arguing that point.