article here. How is Wisconsin doing with jobs — especially with the manufacturing jobs Senator Johnson is refusing to try to bring to Wisconsin?
figure 1: Wisconsin manufacturing employment (black) and U.S. manufacturing employment (tan), both logarithmic, 2020M02=0. NBER defines the recession date from peak to trough, shaded in grey. Source: BLS calculated by FRED, NBER and authors.
How is private employment in general?
figure 2: Wisconsin private nonfarm payrolls (black) and U.S. private nonfarm payrolls (tan), both logarithmic, 2020M02=0. NBER defines the recession date from peak to trough, shaded in grey. Source: BLS calculated by FRED, NBER and authors.
Oddly enough, in 2018, Senator Johnson was an ardent supporter of Foxconn’s misadventures – from Ma’s mouth, see here.
