A "slow and steady improvement" means that jobs are STILL being LOST, just not at the unbelievable pace they were a few months ago. This whole "recovery" is just one giant mirage that the governmnet is creating. It's merely a means to try and improve confidence in a futile attempt to claque the real problems of the economic melt down that is taking place. It will be just a matter of time till the next shoe drops, and when it does, it will be a disaster far worse then what you saw last October.

So Doyle gets to dismiss what he doesn't like. I am tired of him driving our state into the ground. New blood can not come quick enough.

Iam disgusted with the interstates in Wisconsin, Il does use their toll to improve the highways, from jsv to mad it is terriable and maybe beyond, They took that money from the highway fund and used it for other things.

Surprised?

Let's buy more trains we don't need (and have no tracks for), hand out benefits to domestic partners of state employees, lose tens of millions in child care aid fraud and not blink and eye, handout high welfare benefits to any mope that moves to WI, locally build a new ice rink that we don't have money for and don't need (and let's add an unneeded underpass and children's museum for good measure!), and, in an attempt to attend to (i.e. "avoid") the crisis at hand, let's propose a "state motorcycle" (or maybe a "state salad," or "state hair style," or "state disease"--I think that one should be an easy one!).

The Pew Center has nothing to hide (and with a name like "Pew" I bet they can smell a rat!), and Beastmaster Jim Doyle and his cronies everything to hide! Remember the French Revolution? "Let them eat brioche" (the new state bread?)!

Sorry to "harp" on this topic,I must add (see Post 11-20-09,5:24pm).Wi.Job Center Counselor emploee who relayed those words ,also stated that when i left his office,and relayed info to others,others would say I am Crazy.I stand by my statement 100%.
Do you really believe that ANY State Agency would share this type of info with Wisconsinites???
Until State takes off "rose colored glasses"and trully levels with us,We will be duped into believing Wi. is just doing great,jobs are out there!!!!

One last fact...Per Yahoo (11-20-09) finacial web page,The U.S. Government offical U6 number puts true unemployment at 17.5%.....1 in 5 Americans are unemployed,or under employed.

The ONLY reason Wi. budget was balanced,and passed by June 30th was to recieve federal money PERIOD.Without meeting deadline state would have been left out of this huge windfall.Balanced budget by raiding other program funds to reach balance.All smoke,mirrors,accounting gimmicks.We will be as California when this house of cards comes crashing down.Not if,but when.

Well, unemployment has been slowly but steadily improving since midsummer, in Wisconsin, the US, and Janesville. While we have lost some major employers in the area, there is still a viable workforce and some key advantages to employers. These may not be enough to jumpstart employment again over the next 2-3 years, but they will provide Janesville with stability on a longer scale.
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I don't know why anyone would rank Janesville last in the country in terms of its employment challenges -- there are many places worse off than we are, and our manufacturing focus means that we will reap the benefits of increased industrial production. There are 28 states with worse unemployment than ours.
http://www.bls.gov/web/laumstrk.htm
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Anyway, I can find no such study on the public web pages of the DWD, and I go there fairly frequently.
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As for Wisconsin's fiscals, we are in this worst-10-states category, but we're also far from being in California's predicament (IOUs, massive furloughs, widespread service closures). It's an area of serious concern over the next couple of budget cycles, but we did just pass another balanced budget financed more by fee increases than taxes; and we've had nothing like the legislative-executive stalemate to reach that point.

I have stated this before,will state again.PER a Rock County Job Center Counselor,"The State Of Wisconsin has conducted a study,IF the economy takes 1,2,3 years or more to produce jobs,Wisconsin,SPECIFICALLY ROCK COUNTY will be the last in entire United States to show any improvement".
I STILL challenge ANYONE to prove,or refute this statement.Wi. Government SHOULD be honest with its Citizens,ACT accordingly to help (HAND-UP) through these most difficult days (years?) ahead,instead of smoke and mirrors being presented.

It's not rocket science.
Government spending goes up every year, and tax revenues are going down, and will only decline further as unemployment gets worse and worse. The government will not just never cut any spending, but will keep on increasing it, and will only impose more taxes to try and make up the gap. As the great economist Art Laffer taught; the more you tax something the less revenue you will end up getting. The higher taxes in midst of a deep recession, will only make things worse, and we will fall deeper into a hole. Unlike the Federal government who can make up reckless spending via borrowing and printing $$$$, the states do not have such a luxury.
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California is the 1st state to go bankrupt from reckless tax and spend policies. NY has said they will be bankrupt by years end (and they did not even make the top 10 pew list). MI, IL, WI (all in the pew study) will soon follow the path of California. Doyle and company can dismiss it all they want. It's a mere mathematical certainty.