Today, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development released two important numbers, the first is that from December 2010 to December 2011, they have corrected earlier (grossly inflated) jobs numbers and the corrected ones are that in that time range Wisconsin has lost 24,100 jobs.
The second number, which Walker is of course touting, is they are estimating that Wisconsin has gained 12,500 jobs. This from the same crowd that estimated that Wisconsin gained 11,000 jobs last June, but have now corrected that number to losing nine thousand jobs.
Here's the bottomline: Even using the dubious estimates for January, since Scott Walker has been in office, Wisconsin has lost 11,600 jobs.