Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs. Also: Jobs. (Wisconsin Budget Project, 5/9/2011)
Excerpt: If Wisconsin has jobs on the brain, you can’t really blame us. Between January 2008 and October 2009, Wisconsin lost 171,400 jobs (seasonally adjusted), which amounts to 5.9 percent of all employment.
The recession decreased the number of jobs across the spectrum of industries, but the number of jobs in manufacturing in particular saw a precipitous decline.
Nationally, the number of jobs in manufacturing declined more than twice as fast as the total number of jobs, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Wisconsin’s labor force is heavily concentrated in manufacturing -- in fact, Wisconsin has a higher percentage of its workforce in manufacturing than any other state. (You can read more about this in one of our issue briefs.) This concentration means that Wisconsin was particularly vulnerable to job loss.
Janesville GM assembly plant
- Largely idled in December 2008
- Ceased all remaining production in April 2009
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