Despite Wisconsin's unemployment rate being well below the national
rate and steadily falling, on Saturday's NBC Nightly News correspondent
Ron Allen selectively hyped job losses: "With the protesters
serenading Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker and urging voters to recall
him from office June 5th, the state's job losses add to the list of
grievances. The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says Wisconsin lost 23,900 jobs between March 2011 and March 2012."
That same Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed that Wisconsin's unemployment rate fell from 7.6% to 6.8% in that same time period. Ignoring that reality, Allen featured a sound bite from an unidentified woman who ranted: "No other state has lost jobs like this. Wisconsin alone moved sort of off the rails of the national recovery."
Allen then proclaimed: "Many here blame Governor Walker for the job losses. He took office in January 2011, made deep cuts to balance the budget, and virtually eliminated collective bargaining for most public workers....Policies that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the capital and launched the effort to recall Walker from office."
Allen noted how Walker was "telling a very different story about jobs" – in other words, the truth – and played a campaign ad of Walker explaining: "Today, Wisconsin's unemployment rate, it's the lowest it's been since 2008."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2012/04/30/wisconsin-unemployment-falls-nbc-hypes-job-losses-many-blame-scott-wal#ixzz1tZd523XY
That same Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed that Wisconsin's unemployment rate fell from 7.6% to 6.8% in that same time period. Ignoring that reality, Allen featured a sound bite from an unidentified woman who ranted: "No other state has lost jobs like this. Wisconsin alone moved sort of off the rails of the national recovery."
Allen then proclaimed: "Many here blame Governor Walker for the job losses. He took office in January 2011, made deep cuts to balance the budget, and virtually eliminated collective bargaining for most public workers....Policies that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the capital and launched the effort to recall Walker from office."
Allen noted how Walker was "telling a very different story about jobs" – in other words, the truth – and played a campaign ad of Walker explaining: "Today, Wisconsin's unemployment rate, it's the lowest it's been since 2008."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2012/04/30/wisconsin-unemployment-falls-nbc-hypes-job-losses-many-blame-scott-wal#ixzz1tZd523XY
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