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Related: About this forumLYING Gov.Walker's WEDC issues false claims of producing jobs in Sherman Park (Milwaukee)
Spud Lovr ?@SpudLovr 14m14 minutes ago
WEDC issues false claims of producing jobs in Sherman Park http://wisconsingazette.com/2016/08/17/wedc-issues-false-claims-of-producing-jobs-in-sherman-park/ #wiunion #wiright #wipolitics
FeaturedWEDC issues false claims of producing jobs in Sherman Park
Scott Walker
WEDC issues false claims of producing jobs in Sherman Park
August 17, 2016
by Wisconsin Gazette
Gov. Scott Walkers troubled job agency has not created new jobs in Milwaukees Sherman Park neighborhood, despite claiming credit for 483.
Citizen Action conducted a review of reporting by Gov. Scott Walkers jobs agency and could verify no job creation in the area, which was the site of civil unrest over the weekend.
As Citizen Action of Wisconsin documented in its statement Tuesday on the Sherman Park civil unrest, the neighborhood has borne the brunt of the outsourcing and deindustrialization that has taken place since the 1970s.
Citizen Actions review of the Wisconsin Economic Development Agencys database found claims of creating 483 jobs in the area. But an investigation revealed that the companies named do not actually exist in the neighborhood................
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LYING Gov.Walker's WEDC issues false claims of producing jobs in Sherman Park (Milwaukee) (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2016
OP
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)1. He's such a POS
Where is that "pile" emoticon?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Oldest trick in the book
From what we here from the Rellies,job creation is smoke and mirrors with a major brain drain happening. Those who can get their Houses sold are bailing to Minnesota for better pay and work opportunities. Just had a conversation with the Bro,his area is being hit big time with the closure of the Frack Sand Mines and all of the Second and third tier jobs that go with it. But,that's okay,those Casino Jobs really really pay big bucks don't you know.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)3. His lips were moving...therefore...
finish the sentence for yourself.
AllyCat
(16,222 posts)4. Gosh, I seem to remember a train company in MKE