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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.
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