When President Barack Obama arrives in Milwaukee for Monday?s Laborfest rally, he?ll be confronted by another troubling economic report that shows the toll the Great Recession has taken on America?s workers.
Only, this report isn?t national – it?s local.
Wisconsin has lost 155,200 jobs since the December 2007 start of the recession, according to a paper to be published Monday by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.Researchers at the nonprofit think tank based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison document the recession?s impact, as well as longer-term job trends, in a biennial survey, “The State of Working Wisconsin 2010.”