Walker’s Wisconsin Still Lags Nation in Job Growth

Scott Walker's economic record as Wisconsin governor is a mixed one, and that poses complications as well as opportunity for him in the 2016 Republican presidential race.

On one hand, the jobless rate has dropped from 8.1 percent to 5 percent during his time as governor and businesses have been starting up at a healthy clip.

But Wisconsin has added private sector jobs at a lower rate than the national average since July 2011. Only about 145,000 private sector jobs were created over Walker's first four years; he'd promised 250,000.

And the state budget faces a shortfall.

It's a mixed picture and, as the 2016 race heats up, a more complex one than Walker presents to voters as he prepares for a likely candidacy.