Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Escape to (a) Wisconsin, (b) Michigan, (c) Minnesota, (d) Iowa, (e) Illinois


6,000 jobs touted by Gov. Walker are outside of Wisconsin. (Janesville Gazette, 9/21/2011)

Excerpt: Nearly one-in-five of the jobs listed on a state website touted by Gov. Scott Walker as a resource for unemployed Wisconsin residents are actually located in neighboring states, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

More than 32,000 job openings were posted on the Job Center of Wisconsin’s website as of Tuesday, but about 18 percent of them were in Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan. It was unclear how many of those roughly 6,000 jobs could be filled through telecommuting, though many appeared to require on-site work
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