Unemployment in Wisconsin: comparing numbers, recoveries of Walker vs. Doyle The latest data for actual jobs produced in 2013 has been released, and the news is not stellar for the Badger State. Walker administration, perhaps embarrassed, conceals numbers Wisconsin jobs grew by 28,006 during 2013, the slowest yearly rate of growth since the end of the recession, and the worst performing year since Gov. Scott Walker took office in 2011. The news is apparently unwelcomed by the Walker administration. The Department of Workforce Development, in releasing the information, combined it with a different monthly jobs report, burying it well-below the headline . Previous yearly data, a survey of 96 percent of state businesses and released quarterly, have generally been given their own press releases, including the term “Actual Jobs Data” in many of the titles. This time, however, the more positive monthly jobs report got the preferential treatment, despite the Walker administration...