Via Uppity Wisconsin:

Here in the suddenly right-wing satrap of Wisconsin, it's the same-old, same-old: Yet another anemic quarterly job-growth report. Federal data for the period ending in June shows the once sturdy and proud Badger state continued to languish, ranking 37th among all 50 in private-sector job growth. Worse, about half of the state's counties saw job declines in the quarter. National job creation ran at levels nearly double those in Wisconsin.

The bad results produced a rather ho-hum reaction except among apologists from the Republican Party and its right-wing backers, who in reading the report con...

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