The state Department of Revenue is out with a video presentation arguing that the federal estimates on Wisconsin job losses over the past year are wrong. The video features department economist John Koskinen saying the state economy is doing much better than the employment numbers from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest. Gov. Scott Walker on Monday said that ?brighter? job numbers are coming out later this week but did not offer more details.
….Meanwhile, a UW-Madison think tank is out with a report showing that Wisconsin would have gained nearly 50,000 jobs over the past 14 months if job creation had kept pace with the rest of the nation. Instead, Wisconsin is down 14,200 jobs since Walker took office in January 2011, leaving a 64,000 ?jobs hole,? according to an analysis by the left-leaning Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).