State Sen. Jennifer Shilling
Press Release

Budget takes $100 million hit as GOP policies drive down family wages

“The declining revenue numbers are yet another sign of Wisconsin’s underperforming economy and declining family wages under Republican control”

By - Jan 21st, 2016 10:14 am

MADISON – Updated state budget numbers show a nearly $100 million drop in revenue compared to previous estimates. The troubling numbers highlight the continued decline in family wages and debunk Gov. Walker’s latest claims about the state’s financial footing.

“The declining revenue numbers are yet another sign of Wisconsin’s underperforming economy and declining family wages under Republican control,” said Senate Democratic Leader Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse). “After Gov. Walker’s yearlong campaign for president on the taxpayers’ dime, it’s time we focus on helping Wisconsin families rather than catering to out-of-state special interests.”

“We’re never going to grow our middle class if legislative Republicans continue to drive down wages and outsource Wisconsin jobs,” added Sen. Shilling. “After the worst year for mass layoffs and plant closings in Wisconsin since 2010, we need to do more to turn things around. Democrats will continue to fight for investments in local schools, worker training and infrastructure projects to create jobs and move our state forward.”

While Wisconsin continues to struggle both financially and economically, other Midwestern states are seeing robust growth. The neighboring state of Minnesota is currently debating how to reinvest a $1.9 billion budget surplus into schools, early childhood education, middle class tax cuts and broadband infrastructure projects.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.

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Comments

  1. AG says:

    So you take a 12 page report, which includes 2 and a half pages just talking about the effects of oil prices and several other pages discussing over a dozen other causes for the change in revenue, and then you mention the one paragraph about income?

    I seem to ask this question often lately… purposely misleading or glaringly incompetent? An embarrassment either way.

  2. Vincent Hanna says:

    Yet you only ask the question when it comes to press releases from Democrats. Interesting. I’m pretty sure Republicans are guilty of the same. You seem more and more blindly partisan every day.

  3. AG says:

    You must be joking, I criticize them both. You just see fewer republican PR’s on Urban Milwaukee.

  4. Dave Reid says:

    @AG And hopefully over time you’ll have more Republican PR’s to criticize on UM too!

  5. Vincent Hanna says:

    I look forward to you criticizing PR’s from Republicans AG, though I am skeptical you will do so.

  6. Jake says:

    Walker and his cronies are all for education, it just has to be privatized and have a profit margin.

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