Key Findings There are wide variations in the number of “jobs impacted” in each legislative district. While one Assembly district has over 6,000 jobs supposedly projected, 14 Assembly districts have none whatsoever. Republican Assembly districts have close to twice as many jobs projected as Democratic Assembly districts. Republican Leaders in the Assembly have a disproportionate number of jobs impacted in their districts. Republican Majority Leader Bill Kramer’s district features jobs impacted at a rate over 8 times higher than the average Republican district. Republican Speaker Robin Vos and Joint Finance Committee Co-Chair John Nygren also have a disproportionate number of jobs impacted. After adjusting for underlying districts, the average number of jobs projected in Republican Senate districts is more than twice that of Democratic districts. In the suburban and politically conservative counties of Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee, WEDC claims to have impacted over twice as many jobs as the more populous Milwaukee county. The per capita disparity in jobs projected by WEDC between Waukesha and Milwaukee counties is even more striking. There is 1 job allegedly impacted for every 166 Milwaukee County residents, while in Waukesha county 1 job is allegedly impacted for every 36 residents. WEDC’s method of counting jobs seems not to be related to the size of the public investment. In one instance an award of $85,000 is claimed to have impacted 109 jobs, in the case of ATACO Steel Products Corporation in Ozaukee County, while an award of $2,000,000 to Plexus Corp in Outagamie County is claimed to have produced zero jobs.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:44:27 +0000
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