Wisconsin's Middling Economic Growth

Mixed News for Wisconsin in New Economic Data. (Wisconsin Budget Project 6/6/2012)

Excerpt: The BEA statistics show that Wisconsin’s real GDP grew by 1.1% last year, compared to a national average of 1.5%. Measured on a per capita basis, our state’s real GDP was 7.7% below the national average. On the more positive side, our state’s GDP growth ranked in the middle, at 26th and our per capita GDP grew at a slightly faster rate that the national average (0.78% for WI in 2011 vs. 0.73% nationally).