Scott touts his job loss numbers

Scott Walker was out with his "miracle math" jobs numbers yesterday in public and with a campaign ad talking about how Wisconsin gained jobs in 2011 (Big, Fat, Smelly Lie) to get ahead of another really official report on how Wisconsin lost jobs again.

Wisconsin lost an estimated 6,200 private-sector jobs in April, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the state Department of Workforce Development. April showed the second consecutive month of job losses in the state.

After losing more jobs than any state in the nation in 2011, we had slight job gains in January and February of 2012, but March again showed major losses and that has repeated.

Earlier in the week, Gov. Scott Walker released fourth-quarter employment data - not due for formal release until June 28 - showing Wisconsin added over 23,000 public and private sector jobs last year. It was an unusual step for Walker because the numbers had not been fully vetted by federal authorities at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The new figures from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages - which is collected from 95% of the state's private and public sector employers and deemed reliable by most economists - contrast sharply with more than a year's worth of monthly employment surveys, which suggested that Wisconsin lost 33,900 jobs last year, ranking it last among the 50 states.
While the accuracy of the monthly data has been called into question in the past, they were never shown to be off by a magnitude of 57,200 in a single year.

Full story here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/17/1092507/-BREAKING-Walkers-Miracle-Math-Fails-Wis-Loses-6-500-Jobs-in-April